peanuts land..

30 December 2011

2011-12-31T01:24:00.001+08:00

New year's eve's eve. Second last day of 2011. It was a memorable one. Memorable not defined as the happiness in the time spent but rather sad yet precious moments which I learnt a lot. One which makes me realize the importance of him, and how I have been neglecting his feelings. Recently, all I cared about was myself. I don't know how recent is recently. But looking back, it seems to have been happening for quite some time. I didn't used to be like this (from what I can remember).

Albeit growing older, immaturity sets in. What exactly has set off that immaturity?

Throwing tantrums, thinking negatively etc. it didn't used to be me - Joan. What have I become? At times, I think we are becoming more alike. I could feel it coming and developing. Perhaps our thoughts has merged too, neutralizing and canceling each other. I wouldn't say that we have lots of positive influence on each other, though we definitely have made a great influence in each other's life; both good and bad.

We have made our 2012 resolutions. (: hope that a better year awaits us. Or should I say, hope that both of us (especially me) will create a better world together!

Steve Jobs' signature black turtle neck

2011-10-12T11:00:00.000+08:00

Many have rumored online that Steve Jobs' signature turtle neck is by St. Croix, seeing a sales surge of about 100%. However, these rumors aren't exactly true.

Steve Jobs' black turtle necks were in fact designed by the famous Japanese designer, Issey Miyake. And Steve Jobs actually has hundreds of those in his wardrobe.

What Steve Jobs said to Bill Gates...

2011-10-08T12:28:00.001+08:00

"Definitely not a virus"

2011-10-07T12:15:00.000+08:00

I think this is so pretty pretty pleaseee!!
Brother should decorate his MacBook like this.. and maybe I should do so to mine too!

Source: etsy.com via Connie on Pinterest

2011-10-06T14:49:00.002+08:00

“Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he ever set for himself.”

—	Steve Wozniak (Co-founder of Apple)

Another proof that he mastered The Secret in life (:

a meaningful quote from Steve Jobs

2011-10-06T12:55:00.000+08:00

"Again, you can’ t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots willsomehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – yourgut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let medown, and it has made all the difference in my life."

Totally in line with The Secret. I suspect Steve Jobs was one of the masters of The Secret.

Steve Jobs, you left a legacy

2011-10-06T11:50:00.000+08:00

Credits to Things We Forget: Rest in Peace, Steve.

Woke up to the news of Steve Jobs passing away, one day after the introduction the iPhone 4S.

Looking back, about 4 years ago when I have gotten my first MacBook Pro, and since then ever, I have became a frantic Apple convert, true-blue Apple fan girl. That was before everyone around me has a MacBook in Singapore, so I am not definitely not one of those Apple convert out of peer pressure, maybe just "brother-pressure". My brother kinda encouraged me to buy and assured me how easy I would be able to get used to things. Glad I made that decision(: Since that day, there are 2 Macs at home, and even my parents are a little inclined towards using a Mac, though my home desktop is still a Windows.

Next apple product I've gotten was their iPod nano, in pretty lime green! They have it in my favorite colour so why not right? I am drawn to the aesthetics initially, however, the best thing about an iPod is the turn turn click wheel! Fast and easy to use user interface. Though I still won't call it the best mp3 player, in terms of sound quality, in the market, but it is the only one that does syncing with my iTunes so seamlessly. No more drag and drop, pretty album artwork, all ratings of songs rated with my iPod is synced, with smart playlists like recently added, recently played, top rated, ohhh and not to mention the lyrics function which supports dashboard widgets, iTunes add-ons etc...

And when Apple first came out with an iPhone. The one that is sold in US and never made it to Singapore, I wanted to get one. Tried to find ways to import it into Singapore to unlock it etc, but I guess it was all too expensive, didn't really get a chance to own it at all. Then came the iPhone 3G which finally arrived in Singapore, probably due to the bitterness I felt not owning an iPhone "2" I tried to convince myself over and over again that it is not the best phone out there. I chose to put my trust in an Android instead of an iOS. Although my Android didn't serve me that badly, I started feeling left out by friends and family members playing Angry birds on their iPhones. Oh, and cookie dozer too! I remembered how I kept searching on the Android's Market for this game, trying out all the different keywords combination, but it never did return any good news. Even till now, my Android Market still doesn't have that game, though it is officially out in the Android Market. (My Android is one of the first or second generation Android phones, thus a Market that can't be updated and is no longer able to support many apps.)

When the Mac app store finally came up, I told myself that I need to get my hands on the Angry birds app, and ta-dah! I got it on running my 15-inch MacBook Pro. Full Size, so much better as compared to those playing it on their 3.5", not even 4" screens. HAHA. I was just happy though I never gotten even close to completing the game, I did not even complete the first 20 stages. I guess playing in on a Mac, with the Trackpad or the Magic mouse just lost its purpose and thrill in the whole game.

And now as the iPhone 4S is out, (I was expecting an iPhone 5 frankly, plus who would want to own a 4S, and being mistaken as a 4? Then again people who own a 4, wanting to upgrade to a 4S knowing that there won't be a difference in the feel and appearance of your phone?) I am kinda disappointed that there is no iPhone 5. I have resisted various temptations of other HTC new releases like Sensation, Incredible S, even the Cha Cha with a full qwerty keyboard!, just to wait patiently for my iPhone 5. I told friends and family to stop me from buying any other phones till the iPhone 5 is out. But now, they came up with the 4S only, and first. After following the updates of @Macrumorslive on twitter in Apple's latest keynote event, I was left not very spurred on buying the 4S. Though I am looking forward to the iOS 5, but still an additional Siri doesn't really make the 4S more attractive than the 4. (Reminds me of Southpark episode of Humancentipad, where the Southpark Apple made a product that can read.) Hence, I dismissed that thought of owning an iPhone 4S, and to began my long and painful wait for the iPhone 5.

Now, my brother first broke the news of Steve Jobs passing away to me, it made me realised how, this ~~could be~~ IS the last iPhone that is with that Steve Jobs *touch*. I am now inclined towards buying an iPhone 4S, not sure if it is to show my support and gratitude for him or do I really want to own this 4S. What if the iPhone 5 isn't as good or as phenomenal as Jobs always puts it? ): Indeed it is a tough decision to make. The iPhone 4S or to wait for the iPhone 5? I am kinda sick of waiting yet afraid that if I eventually bought the 4S, 5 launches as so much better a deal! It is the endless waiting and fearing cycle of Apple users. Always torn and trapped in between...

Steve Jobs, was such a legacy in the world of music, then computers, and now the Tablets. Look at all that Samsung Galaxy Tab, Blackberry Playbook, Asus Transformers, Kindle Fire etc coming out in the market. And who is the initiator of all these? Him, The Steve Jobs. I guess Moore's law has really to thank him for being the great catalyst.

Always remembering what a great speaker and presenter he is. I am gonna miss his presentations and keynote events, I remembered how I would always watch almost all of his keynotes events, even those when he introduced Macintosh long long ago. The way he delivers, the zeal and enthusiasm in his every carefully crafted word, is better than Phil Schiller, and Tim Cook? Haven quite watched him yet.

Re-watched his Stanford Commencement Video (2005) again. Listening to the part where he talks about death, and having a total new revelation about things, knowing that now that he is there, up in heaven and he must be resting in peace.

I guess he could feel himself reaching this final destination soon, explains the stepping down as Apple's CEO. Many of his eureka moments is shared by people all over the world, and with his passing, we have lost a great innovator, a great speaker and motivator. Yet we know that he has indeed left a legacy, and maybe now he is beginning another legacy up there in heaven.

Credits to http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

In memory of a simple black top and jeans wearing Steve Jobs.

P.S. I think I will be buying a iPhone 4S and this has been one of the longest blogpost ever, dedicated to Steve Jobs. RIP.

Definitely for an Amazon Addict (:

2011-10-05T17:02:00.000+08:00

Being an Amazon Addict, or rather a online shopping "believer" and "worshipper", I finally found a site that is closer to Amazon but nearer to home (:

Introducing the Amazon Singapore, goshhh! Unbelievable, I never knew this site was around for such a long time! I bet most bloggers in Singapore would have already know of its presence, it is affectionately known as Jipanban. I guess this should be translated into Hokkein as 100s 10,000, which is in fact 1 million dollars!
If I had one million dollars, I would purchase these set of bunny rings, every single colour available(:

Aren't they just cute and adorable?

Okay, I shall go back and browse! Simply love shopping from the comfort of my lovely chair!

a short 3D2N vacation off to Batam! (: Holiday Inn + Harris

2011-09-27T21:27:00.002+08:00

Thank you darling for sponsoring our trip to Batam & thank you for your utmost love and care you have given me over the past three days! (: you made me feel like I am the happiest and luckiest girl ever in the whole wide UNIVERSE! (:

while waiting for our second room!(:

Love those HTHT nights and TCSS sessions with you. Love how we can talk about anything and everything and still have things to talk about after all these years. (Today is the fifth year and 34th day that we have known each other!!!) I hope & believe that we can continue having these endless things to talk about for the rest of our life (:

Our limited edition coffee vodka! Cafe Boheme! dear I can't never forget all those things you said when you were drunk! :P

Thank you for your countless reassurance. Thank you for tolerating my temper & nonsense. HEHE:P I know I can get very fierce at times. Though I am so nice when I am cheerful hor? :P muacks muacks :* I am trying to better manage my temper(:

Us trying to snap a picture of our couple wear – snoopies!

Thankfully for our 3D2N vacation. We found and rekindled love. Something that I believe every couple, be it youngsters/oldsters, should do once in a while. These are always things that I can look back upon, grinning and smiling to myself (: These are the little things that brightens up a dull and tiring day at work. These are the things that I want them to be forever engraved and etched in my memory. ♥

Both our singing improved ya? *winks*

Once again, thank you darling for the wonderful 3D2N! I will be looking forward to our next trip and in the mean time, reminisce those lovely moments during our many tripsss(: I LOVE YOU VERY MUCHIE DARLING(: SMURF! :P

LOVE OF MY LIFE(:

Winning a S$2 scratch card! (:

2011-09-22T12:41:00.001+08:00

It was a whole day of fun with mummy and brother yesterday (:
Mummy took leave to "bring" brother and I out. Nah.. it is more of brother and I accompanying mummy!

It was an eye opener as we first went to somewhere along Selegie road, a building by the name of POMO. (Imagine that written as a grid) Went to the lottery place in there (I think that is the headquarters od Singapore Pools) and I bought the first ever scratch card in my life under the constant encouragement of my dearest brother. (: Both of us bought a S$2 scratch card each! Brother went first as he wanted to show me how it is supposed to be done. HAHAHA. he sounded experienced, as though he buys it frequently! Oh just for the record, his 4D winning stats is 100%! Not bad ah? my lucky brother! So anyway, it was simple. Hassle free, don't even need to go to the counter to buy! Just insert a S$2 note into the machine, hit the S$2 scratch card button, and your scratch card would fall out from there!

Oh, but being a "mountain tortoise" in lottery related stuff, the scratch card looks like it can't be scratched anywhere. It has a beautiful picture on the front and instructions at the back. I would have expected scratch card to have a silver foil surface whereby it can be scratched! So in actual fact, any part of the beautiful picture is actually the "silver surface". Not bad (: so I just scratch scratch scratch lo! and I saw that number 88! Heeeee (: This was it! I won S$4(: cos you will win the amount of money stated under the number 88. There are other numbers on the card too. Brother didn't get any 88. ):

Went into the counter to collect my winnings (: two S$2 notes, one a little crumpled): but anyway, I was told to keep the winnings properly in my wallet and not spend them. (: my lucky winnings! haha!

And this was how I "struck lottery"! not bad not bad (:

P.S.: I am not advocating any form of gambling here, just sharing!

Rest of the day, we went to Rochor Tau Huey! good lehhh! (: I used to not like Tau Huey or Tau Huey Sui or whatsoever tau huey-ish. eg vitasoy. But this tau huey is really smooth, not very strong imo, whatsmore, there is air conditioning seats upstairs! nice old looking place!

Went to Guan Yin Temple, first time seeing it not so crowded. Weekdays afternoon(:
Cabbed over to Resort World Sentosa next. Cabbing choice was made due to us thinking that there isn't much time left. However we realised that it was the best choice! Cos if we enter by train it will cost us S$3 each, which totals up to S$9 for the three of us! that is excluding our mrt fare from bugis! Guess how much was our cab fare?? Less than S$9! only S$8+ only! Cheap Cheap!

Shopped around RWS, Victoria Secret is bimbotically sexy. And the shop just smell so good! I need to stop myself from buying any more perfumes. I have over 600mL of perfumes at home now! I don't need that much perfume right?!

oh and a part of the casino was under renovation. Very noisy! I bet they will be driving their customers away with all that drillings and hammering.

Took the monorail out to Vivocity! Ate 611 tau sa piah and shopped around in the basement only. bought some Vitamins. Shopped around Giant to find some kinda coffee table like furniture for our living room. Everything just looks ugly! Found a taxi stand and took cab to Great World City.

Had our dinner there (: Thank god for Ladies Night heehee (:

All pictures with my brother! Might upload some other time then.
Drillings at home again. damn. ):

2011-09-20T20:24:00.000+08:00

After serious considerations.. Much deliberation.. Many changes in plan..

~~I hope~~ our Batam 3D2N is finally settled (: It is definitely coming true & its better than planned!

Batam this time is gonna be a Holiday Inn Batam + Harris getaway. YES, I am finally going to Holiday Inn! (:

Though it is just a short three days, It means a lot to me. It has been something that I was looking forward to ever since I am back in Singapore. Probably, it is the seafood? Or the SPA? Or just the chance to be exposed to Sun by the poolside/ waterfront. Maybe in conclusion, it is the opportunity to spend a solid, three, carefree days of quality time with dear ♥ We haven had the chance to spend much time together. Talking on the phone nightly was also no longer a daily routine. We have been busy, and I guess this would be the best time for us to catch up and fall deeply in love all over again. (: Romance at the right times does magic (:

Looking forward to our trip, many photos shall be taken and we shall do all that we have planned! (: (: (:

Solely the news of this trip gave me a huge motivation to study, so much so that I have the energy to wake up at 6AM in the morning just to study. OMG (: Go nerdy Joan! You can do it! (:

I, too have learned that sometimes when things don’t work out at the beginning, don’t be discouraged. You will be surprised as to how it will turn out to be in the end (:

GTG back to studies!

P.S. Kinda like the new Blogger layout and UI. Very user-friendly (: Gonna start reviving this space & hello to all who are still checking back on this space (:

i will miss amazon.de

2011-07-17T19:35:00.006+08:00

Ordered stuff from amazon.de once again. [Finally, my Avril Lavigne Forbidden Rose Prefume+Lotion, & a Victorinox swiss army knife] I presume this would be the last time I am ordering anything here. Definitely miss those online shopping time, and seeing that everything is cheap and comes with free shipping! its just Yippeeness (:

All the things I bought off Amazon.de:

Adidas female world cup jersey €42.75 loved it much! kinda bought it cos of the pretty headband, which I found pretty useless as I can't pull it off on a normal day. Also, the German female World cup team lost in the Quarterfinals. ): rahsss. Was hoping that they can win the title this time round. Nonetheless, upon selfish thought, my jersey will be considered "updated" as the two golden starts on the top left hand corner remains TWO. (:
Adidas Micoach €83.29 this was supposed to be a gift for my brother. or rather a shared motivation to run device. Yeap, have been using it for quite some time. Indeed motivational, and what I like most about it is, it keeps my pacing in check. Definitely one of the most useful buy (: And we have been eyeing for it in Singapore since three IT fairs ago. Plus, I got it at the cheapest possible price, it was a sales period then! *HAPPY MAX*
Eastpak Wyoming with leather bottom €40.60 this bag is simply pretty loves(: once again, sharing it with my brother(: was looking for a new bag to replce my torn NUM backpack. argh. What lousy NUM quality & its so freaking ex! bahhh. anyway, Eastpak from amazon is much cheaper than outside. & shipd right to your doorstep! Come on, I just could resist it!
Avril Lavigne Forbidden Rose Perfume & Lotion set €57.75 Tried looking for the 100mL perfume out in the stalls for long, but just couldn't find it. & they do not restock them too. I like my perfume HUGE. Thus, its always 100mL for me (: New addition to my collection of perfumes, Salvatore Incanto Dream, Escada Moon Sparkle, Salvatore Attimo, Avril Lavigne Black Star & lastly my new found love (:
Victorinox Manager Pocket Knife €20.04 For dear dear! I chose the colour for him, the original Opaque Swiss Army Red. I think that colour is the classiest of them all. Not liking the transparent colours at all. Looks cheap, like imitation. ): And we will have a couple Swiss Army knife! :P Like who cares right, but I do. one of those little girly insignificant things in life that matters & I am contented about. I need to learn to be more mature, or maybe not. simple contentment is the key to happiness (:

Just to add on to my purchases off Amazon, not just .de. I shopped at amazon.co.uk & amazon.com (the US site too!) Shipped my purchase off amazon.co.uk to Stefanie in London. & bought a Kindle US$139 from the US site as it was SO MUCH CHEAPER and got Andrew to bring it back (: Purchased the amazing Travolo Travel Spray from the UK site. That little thing is so much cheaper on the UK site £5.69, whereas it cost €11!! It may look just like a normal perfume spray which you can get from Singapore's Pasar Malam at S$1, but behold watch this video, and you will be convinced that it is capable of saving much more money & trouble in the long run (:

lovely parents (:

2011-07-02T04:46:00.003+08:00

My parents camwhoring, they are just so cute(:

Chatted with mummy on msn just now. Cute how she updates me our family, in English, over msn...

About how brother's studies aren't doing very well, & I should give him tuition when I am back instead of paktor-ing

About how Auntie, Uncle, Daddy and her going to an open air concert tomorrow with a Pasar Malam [she said Night Market, probably cos she was referring to 夜市 like in Taiwan) that sells good food (according to the description on the website)

About how she keeps seeing good food on sale yet she did not purchase them cos they are only valid till this month and I am not back yet (so sweet right? She finally realised that they have been going to many places without me!)

About how there is this SCV shows that just interviewed 黄小琥 and is gonna interview my favorite 刘德华 too (but she isn't sure when will they show that episode, and hopes that I am back by then!) *I pray hard that it will be shown on 6 August!*

About how there were prayers this morning

About how I haven been sending her my German bank statements! (oops! and she will know how much I have been spending! Though she asked if I have enough money, and after some calculations we both agreed that most of the money was spent on transport & food. Mom was so sweet that she asked me not to scrimp on food, she said, "must eat. come back Singapore then save." goodness!)

About how she has to work tomorrow morning and how her boss increased her pay and how she expressed her need to sleep - "oh time to sleep. i hv work @ clinic on tomorrow morning." Everything is so cute (:

After the long list of cuteness about mummy, time for some of daddy's cuteness!

Brother and I were talking in the Whatsapp group conversation (with daddy inside) about my trip to Lyon. Then, suddenly I mentioned buying dad a present. He was all along non-existent in the conversation as he did not type anything at all until I said I bought him a belt. And he went, "Really so good to me?? Thank Q....." After which, brother was like, "Whoa dad suddenly pop out!" (I like the way he used "POP" really "POP"!) Following, dad's reply was "Yeah lo.. Bcoz my daughter buy me a belt mah" HAHAHAHAHA! and after that, dad disappeared from the conversation again! Now I finally confirmed my doubts that he really reads everything on the conversation, just that he doesn't reply or comment on it! (*Note to self: be careful of what I say! HAHA!)

Parents, they are so precious to me. I don't know what I would be today without their guidance(: Thanks for bringing me up to who I am today (:

I don't say this often, but love ya all ♥

accomplished much

2011-07-02T04:14:00.002+08:00

The title reads "accomplished much". Much in this case refers to only one very huge ass important thing.

I have made a long and deliberate contemplation,

To enjoy now and suffer for the rest of the one year or
To do my best now and even if I didn't get it in the end *touchwood please*, I would not regret the decision, cos at least I tried (: [Thanks stefy, she gave me a really strong asskicking motivation that lasted me since this afternoon (:]

It kinda suck yet rock. Sucks cos I was damn antisocial, feeling bad that I am so antisocial. I could have put this down and do it another day since I have till next week. But I know myself well enough to say that by putting it down, its gonna be even harder to pick it up and do it again. Huge inertia to be overcome. Since the motivation was there, together with strong immense encouragement, I pushed myself on and accomplished it (which is much).

It rocks cos it was a milestone, definitely. It has been quite sometime since I last concentrated so hard and put in so much for something. I hope I had done my best (or exceeding my best). I think I did - my very best in quite a while...

adidas micoach

2011-05-26T22:15:00.004+08:00

Finally received my micoach pacer today! total damage done, €83.29! Cheap! and it has to rain! bummer! ): but no worries, I am sure I will get a chance to use it tomorrow! (:

Excited! it is all set up and ready for use. (: Stride sensor attached onto shoelaces! Workout set and synchronised. starting with the 30 minute workout!

I am now more motivated to run I hope (:

oh, just a little glitch, it got hang just now. but no worries. did a little reset (: now its fine and working well and good!

is this reality?

2011-05-26T10:58:00.000+08:00

dear dear is officially and really really really really coming to Germany! No joke (: everything has been well and confirmed. I pinched myself hard, till I get a huge bruise, and I finally believed that its real (:

Planned out a series of trips to go with him! Paris, Berlin, Kologne, and small places around Karlsruhe! This is gonna be exciting!

Treasure it all, treasure them all. (:

a photo moment, on the way to Montreux

2011-05-25T04:37:00.003+08:00

looking out of the window, as I sat in the first class seat, on the beautiful Golden Pass Scenic Road. The road from Interlaken to Montreux (: pretty pretty.. despite the cloudy sky, with impending rain, it is still incredibly schön.. falling slowly into dreamland with such a beautiful backdrop.. However, I was reminded of the €9 first class seat reservation I made, and woke up to snap more pictures (: One of the many pictures I took, the rest will be uploaded on Facebook. (soon, I hope)

Switzerland- Interlaken, Bern & Montruex (:

2011-05-25T04:29:00.002+08:00

This post is for those who are still reading and following this blog (: with my hectic travelling plans. I think this blog will be updated much more frequently (:

By far, this trip was the best I ever had (: seriously I loved it to the max. I figured that I am not that much of a Schloss/ cultural/ museum-ish person. I love nature, outdoor activities, chilling out with friends, and good food!

My very first impression of Switzerland was the helpful people at Interlaken. Within 200m, two helpful Swiss approached us, asking if we needed help as we appeared lost. They were so genuinely helpful that even though we had a rough idea of where to go, we accepted their help. I love countries with helpful, friendly and hospitable people (: [eg. Taiwan!!]

Secondly, this trip was special as we stayed in tents! experienced a really hot and stuffy day, while a cold and chilly night! goodnessssss! but it was such a memorable experience! oh, and communal bath was one of the highlights. Kinda interesting. :X Hot bath plus suntanning, on a chillax, spend nothing day 2. is was so damn good. (:

Friends I went with on the trip, and friends we met on the trip. Friends I went with on the trip, wei’an and michelle (: travelled with them quite a number of times, but this time round it feels different! bonding session (: we relaxed and chit chatted in the hot bath, had lots of nonsensical photos taken, sang as we walked all the way back to our tents etc.. I loved the part where we were singing Home, and how Wei’an tried to make us harmonise and the song turned out pretty bad. Really funny, I still can’t stop laughing! Once again, thanks to friends like them which brings life to my Exchange days (:

Friends we met on the trip, Remi and Roger. It’s a circle of life (: helped them out when they were looking for their hostel, just like how the people in Switzerland helped us out that morning. We passed them an extra map that we have, just like how in Milan a kind tourist passed us her map too. We parted without proper introductions, but we met the next day again. Fate is what brings people together. I like them (: On a side note, things said during our conversations made me think and reflect.

Food, was another thing that played an important role in making this one of the best trip. This was a trip where we bought lots of snack bars! loads of healthy looking oat biscuits, simply lots of our own food as we didn’t want to spend as much money on expensive food in Switzerland! However, as it turns out, this was the trip where I spent most of my money on food! One good and satisfying meal (: Swiss Classic Cheese Fondue. It was really good, but expensive and fattening, considering that I ate for a two person portion! Mixed cheese with white wine - delicacy (:

Switzerland, is a place where I will return. Balmers Herberge tentage too(: The next time in Switzerland, I’ll be brave and Skydive/water raft/canyoning/paragliding/hanggliding. My biggest regret is not having done all these. oh, and not forgetting, visit the lovely Jungfrau (:

a little updates (:

2011-01-27T10:37:00.003+08:00

seems like life is gonna be just lab and lab and German for me.
and nope, I won't try to work anymore! :P would rather spend the time for more meet ups with friends before flying off! :D

Seriously, looking back at my last few weeks of life, it has been
horrifying lab,
even more horrifying German 6,
inviting friends over to my place,
dinner gatherings with friends,
more gatherings with friends,
jogging,
swimming? trying to be healthier :P
facebooking?,
getting hooked up with lame games like Angry birds? The Sims 3? Hospital Tycoon?

It has been shall long time since I last played games on my MBP (: with 640GB HDD,
Viel Spiel sind jetzt möglich! :D

Pictures below (:

the night of Disney fireworks (:

my dream castle!
we designed my 21st birthday cake! :D
back at home (: playing around with f1.8 lens (:

haven got the pictures of taiwan! with brother! (he is as lag as I am! :P)
last day at MSD (:

healthy and nutritious snack from mummy!

2010-11-14T18:28:00.003+08:00

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the motivation to carry on (:

2010-11-14T18:28:00.001+08:00

Sweet little things that pushes me on (:

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so true!

2010-10-03T22:44:00.001+08:00

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new found gem in Tampines (:

2010-09-29T09:25:00.005+08:00

Heartland, atas ice cream anyone?
Seems too impossible to be true, but YAYness! :D
Read about it in a magazine, couldn't believe it initially, went to look up for it, and viola!!! good reviews about this place! :D here I am salivating as I read the reviews (:

Blic Ice Cream Cafe
802 Tampines Ave 4 #01-23
Tel: +65 6786 0860

Opening Hours

Sun–Thu: 12pm – 11pm
Fri–Sat: 12pm – 11.30pm

(Hungrygowhere review)

Gonna cycle there with my brother after his promos. yums yums treat. (:

Price comparable to Udders, with the

Single scoop (classic/premium): $3.20/$5.20

Double scoop (classic/premium/mix): $4.80/$7.80/$6.30

(Premium includes alcoholic and Durian, same Udders-concept.)

not that expensive right? Do I earn myself a treat by recommending this place to you guys (: Ask me along if you going, I would gladly join you, just a stone throw away from my place!

Update: Just looked it up on gothere.sg This place is ~~super~~ near to A1 bubble tea! Sinful dessert trip to Tampines St 81 on my bike, shed off some fats!

time to concentrate on my studies

2010-09-26T20:41:00.001+08:00

New found motivation to concentrate. A great motivation indeed. Expensive, but its all worth the money I hope! (:

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holga loves ):

2010-09-19T00:54:00.004+08:00

I miss leaving house with my purpsholga.
One day, I am gonna bring it out with me all alone. (: (:

after all that other dedications, and it shall be out with me. Sounds super long later. /: and I have decided to treat myself better first. Others comes next. :P selfish, but very true indeed. ):

lack of meet ups, please forgive me my dearest friends..

2010-09-16T21:53:00.002+08:00

A quote to start of...

"I will once again stress that I will only say I miss you when I mean it. "

& best friends are not easy to come by @weiantheman you are one such best friend.

@kesleen, you are missed.

@dawn wish we can meet up soon and more often, though studying together might not be possible. HAHA, you know why. *wink*

Sorry to have neglected so many of my other friends. ):
My hectic schedule (work, tuition and my studies) is keeping me occupied most of the time. (really!) It is really not that I do not want to meet up, but my life is pretty much occupied with things. Even my dearest don't get to see me much. ):

No doubt, busy life makes me feel more productive.

Though lethargic-ness kicks in very often. (almost every day...)

I am not wasting money in NUS

2010-08-10T21:51:00.000+08:00

Money is not wasted in NUS. Internship, NUS make me pay school fees! Fine, Then I shall take up more modules to make my school fees worth it.

All the four modules that I planned for has been successfully bidded for. Namely:
GEK1542
GEM2901
CM3268
CM4261

Taking a range of modules from level one to level four. I hope I can make it. (: The level four module looks very difficult, not something that I can understand. ): Level 3 module look long and tedious to study. It is a self study module. rahhs. The other two level one and two modules should be alright, even if it is not, I can choose to utilise my last two SU options which will be deemed useless at the end of this semester.

No worries, I have promised to study real hard. Dear will be watching me and keeping me in track. No more gatherings every evenings, no more going out till late on Saturday nights. All that is left of me is Study and Mug hard! Joan Can Do It!:D

National day is just another long weekend to spend time with family (:

2010-08-09T23:11:00.004+08:00

The past few days, feasted on FOOD FOOD and more FOOD. Just downed a cup of Ume, not sure if I am drunk/tired/just having Tuesday blues. ): This coming week will be a busy one. All my evenings are occupied once again, don't ask me out people, especially a certain friend, I don't want to feel guilty for rejecting you again! :P just in case you start demanding some form of compensation for your heartbreak. Ya, so in conclusion, Joanqiqi is gonna be real busy this coming week, not at work though, that explains why am I so high after work. :P

Speaking of work, I lost my motivation to learn on my own. I need to find other avenues of learning. I can't be reading a document over and over again for 4 times and claim that I learn something each time. I am sick of cracking my brains, thinking of how to describe what I learned/(work performed) for the week in order to complete my logsheet. I do envy people with things to do. If that somebody has things to do, he/she should indeed treasure his/her fortune to be blessed with duties Despite the task being paper-work-laden, or hard-work-laden, things should be much better than sitting there, stoning, reading story books; for fear that anyone who sees it gets bu shuang, surfing randomly, emailing friends from other companies, and smsing people, all in the name of trying to act busy. Just think of me, and you will realise how lucky you truly are.

Last week, I gave up on trying to find work to do. That was right after my boss/supervisor said, "Sorry I really dont't have anything for you at the moment." ): rahhs to the max. haiz. My immature brain began to wonder, "Doesn't that mean that I can outrightly slack? Since it is not that I don't want to fulfill my task, and I am not responsible. If I don't have things to do, then I shall be given the right to do my own things, and not sit there and waste my precious time." Wasting time has always been one big thing that I hate. I hate doing that to the core, which is why I hated work last week, upon reflecting. Tomorrow, I shall go and approach my supervisor/boss in some other way, to ask for things to do. And please, those people who are freaking supposed to conduct trainings for me, can you hurry up do so. Stop wasting my time. 6 weeks of work, and I am not fully trained. This is one thing that I must remember to feedback to NUS at the end of my internship. Or maybe I should not even wait till the end...

What should I do tomorrow then? Notes are out, should I start studying and reading them(at work)?

I don't understand why I dislike someone so much. Dear, bookworm2 and best friend should know why. I don't like people who purposely oppose and want to contradict me every now and then. I have my point and you have yours, I don't need you to agree with me and I don't want to agree with you either, so just leave it at that. I found myself just nodding away while you are talking and your confusing story bores me. Seriously. This is the first time I am so not liking someone. That's alright, some part of me already don't like something about that someone. People who don't know who that person is, don't bother guessing, don't think you can get it right. :P

Making friends with the other interns, is one of the best things that happened last week. (: (: glad there are some other people to light up my dull life at work! Instilling laughter in my sleepy mornings, afternoons and days. Applied Chem Gathering was great too! It is the company that matters, I don't remember enjoying the gathering that much with some other clique present. Spent a bomb though ):

Just a little something to take away, 上班等吃饭，吃饭等下班。Did I miss out something? Sounds too short and weird. Anyway, quoted from Uncle Say Yong.

Since I am paying school fees while I am interning,

2010-07-30T22:00:00.001+08:00

As the title goes, Since I am paying school fees while I am interning, I made the decision to take more evening modules in NUS on top of the self study module and forensics which was the initial plan. Just one more evening module to go, 6 to 9pm on a Monday night. It is a level 4 Core. Yup, level 4. To me the level doesn't seems to make a lot of difference except for the cohort that you are taking it with. Alright, maybe its too soon to make that conclusion, but at least that was what I felt when I took level 3 core in year 2. Dawn was commenting that it sounds like smart joan taking advanced level things. I think she forget to add in just one more word, smart aleck joan would be more appropriate. Hope I don't regret what I am doing. No, I will love what I am doing. The Law of Attraction is powerful, It is The Secret and I faithfully believes in it.

Just to add a little surprise at the end of this post, I might take one more GEM module, provided that I can bid for both forensics and that GEM. Both are modules with high bid points. Together with my Internship, the number of MCs I am fulfilling this semester would be 24 (: Happiness, it makes the money I pay to NUS totally worth it.

why do girls improve their looks?

2010-07-29T21:10:00.000+08:00

"Girls improve their looks but not their minds,
because they know that some boys are stupid, but not blind."

haha! :P sorry to all the guys in this world! I just thought that it was funny that's why I posted it here! No offence!

another eventful week!

2010-07-28T21:41:00.004+08:00

Day after day, there are gatherings and dinner meetings with friends. (: I am loving a lifestyle like this, which is attributed to me still not having much to do at work. THAT WAS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, how about me not having any work at all being assigned to me? Yes, that is the correct description of my state at work. Joanqiqi doesn't like it when she gets to slack too much when she is supposed to be getting the most out of her internship. It shouldn't and must not work this way. She doesn't feel good that she is not doing anything and getting paid, she doesn't feel good when she there is no sense of satisfaction out of what she is doing. She is one who needs to be constantly doing things to show herself and others that she is useful to the society, and her actions are being appreciated. In other words, she (wants to) feel(s) egoistic at times, and loves to challenge the impossible.

Acting busy everyday has came to a halt, it became trying hard to keep myself occupied with something to do for as long as it takes. Meaning, I would decide on what I want to do for the day, for example, labeling of the files, then, I would double and triple check things, make sure that the alignments, font size, logo size, label size, and every other minor details is perfect before I print it out. Even the task of cutting up the pieces of labels was done so meticulously, that it takes me forever to cut out one single label. Effort was also put into making sure that all the clear folders in the files are intact. As reinforcement rings were not available, I would do it the manual way, paste scrotch tape (the 3M brand, made in USA one) over those torn and tattered holes, punch them manually, and file them back into the files. Some of those documents must have aged over the years as they turned yellow and has a stench of "antique"? Hence, that manual reinforcement rings task would take forever to mend up every single aged documents. As you have guessed it, I am just trying to stall time. Doing things to full perfection, which brings along one dis/advantage, me living up to my old name of a perfectionist - a name which has departed from me for years..

Despite all that delaying, I finished all that by late afternoon. Thinking that I have two hours more, I decided to slowly make my way to the filing room with TWO files sandwich between my arms and elbows. I meant slowly, I tried to take my own sweet time to stroll across the lab, get the key from the keybox, stroll out of the lab to the room, open the dehumidified filing room, arrange the files a little though they have all been alphabetized, and numberized by ME last week. Gosh! I can't even stand my own walking pace! I don't walk particularly fast, but I can't stand slow walkers (reminds me of CupWalkers! YUMS! sorry irrelevant!) I hate to waste time getting from one place to another, I hate travelling slowly, I hate waiting, that explains why I am a fan of SBS iris. Afterwhich, I start to feel the dryness and the heat in the filing room becomes unbearable, I made my way out of the room, and get TWO more files and the cycle repeats itself. There were about 2 rounds of 6 to 8 files. Whatever, call me inefficient, which I think might be infecting my brain cells and making them think that this is the way to go! No way man! I told myself to be more efficient starting from the next day, as I do not wish to continue living in a world of inefficiency.

That was the story of yesterday workload and inefficiency. Today, I woke up telling myself that I need to brace myself up and gain something more valuable than purely labeling of files. So I went into lab, started staring at all the protocols and trying to combine all the knowledge that I gained from my endless trainings and figured out how to write a protocol myself. I did a few pages of my own protocol (they are just notes/methods you should follow in layman terms, but I wanted to sound professional) on how to write a protocol. Am I cool or what? I feel so proud of myself, I analyzed the various protocols, looking up various Quality Standards, tried to figure out how the calculations are done, got my brain thinking hard as a list of questions are being generated onto my protocol. I felt so proud of myself the whole of today, I learnt so much more. Rather than sitting there and complaining of having nothing to do, and randomly surfing around, at the same time being afraid of getting caught, I should have taken the initiative to learn on my own. I know that this protocol that I am doing for myself would be useful in future, even as I am typing this out, I thinking about my protocol, and how I should continue improving it tomorrow. I will try and explore around more to find those answers to my questions. Maybe when my supervisor is free, I can bombard her with that list of questions. As for tomorrow I will continue with my protocol. I will begin with the evaluation of calculations and try out some calculations on my own, making sure that I am capable of performing them. This part is tricky, I tried it once before, but I failed. Tomorrow, I am going to make sure that I get it done, if not I am not going to go home! joking!

Are you readers thinking that joanqiqi is such a sensible and hardworking intern? Just a little secret to divulge here so that I don't appear that angelic to all of you. I am not that hardworking at all times. There are times (quite a lot) when I am just too bored to continue reading my protocols. These are the times when I start emailing friends (thank you to these friends!) with my NUS email, messaging from my phone gets too obvious, so emailing is a better choice. Furthermore, the only email that I can access is the NUS email. (rahhs!! ) which in fact is a good choice as emailing from the NUS email makes it less suspicious that I am in truth "enjoying myself". It serves as a façade as though I have some important school stuff to settle. However, the ploy exposes itself soon after, as I am well known for the overuse of emoticons. Seeing all the symbols/smileys floating all over the email messages, you are bound to decipher that façade, and understand that my emails are not for formal school/studies purposes. Sadly.

That best friend has been telling me that he is busy at work, and I have been replying that I hope I can be as busy as your are. I am gonna tell myself "Be careful what you wish for". I liked that song (:

certain someone seems not that bad after all, stop passing judgments so soon, I am not so sure if the bad has turned good though.

it has been three weeks

2010-07-22T22:20:00.002+08:00

three weeks, out of the 24 that I am supposed to accomplish. Merely 1/8 of the total. Ask me if I am passionate and excited about the internship, Yes, I could bravely admit that I WAS. That is not the end of the story, because I believe I WILL.

I am glad that I chose to get out of my comfort zone at times, I chose to take the initiative to do things, I chose to interact and take the social route. After three weeks of "work", I finally see the direction I want to head towards, values that I want to gain out of this internship. Today, people start looking for me, in fact too many people were looking for me; some were good news others bad. Nevertheless its still good news to make my presence known.
joanqiqi gives herself a *pat* on her shoulders. (: smile like you mean it, sincerely.

There were some problems/ situations faced at work. Things that irritates me, not that much of irritation, just a bit upset by the way things go. Alrights, at least I have people whom I message straight away to talk to them about my problems. Thanks baby and best friend!

Looking backward, I think it might be the circle of life at work, I have lent a helping hand to two aunties, and one watermelon army guy today. Maybe that's why things are starting to perk up a little. (:

My beloved Enfant left for Laos, hope those reflective glands in brain work themselves out, I am looking forward to an interesting narrative. And me being an obedient friend is doing what she has instructed, DON'T MISS HER! :D no worries, I am not missing you a bit at all.

Baby, is sick. ): He looks tired just now. ): hopes he get well soon!

My supervisor is sick too. The colleague sitting behind me is sick too. Xuejiao seems to be falling sick too. My brother too! Please flu bug, go away and never come back. I hate you, I am gonna develop some new drug to kill you!

三个愿望 - 梁文音

2010-07-17T13:10:00.004+08:00

你开始会计划未来了
那恋人正拿我看心灵的存折
像火星的脾气少很多
很忙也会记得抽空练完
你做的事我都看见了
所以抱你的时候眼里红红的
就算你有时候会犯错
怎么想都在不开心什么

你答应送我三个愿望
第一个希望你能健康开朗
第二个希望我能更懂体谅
第三个希望我们永远有话讲
其实我不用三个愿望
每一天都有感动值得收藏
每一夜天使陪我祈祷仰望
每滴泪都被你的魔法变阳光

因为很爱所以会想通
不再去坚持己见让彼此难过
当感情很稳定很浓厚
退让也会有种甜蜜感受

感谢我们的爱情没有翅膀
一步步走在往幸福的路上
再用足够的时间好好欣赏
让开心春夏秋冬四季的风光

This song is currently on repeat, read the lyrics (:

Wavin' Flag is another addictive song which has the lady gaga aura.

i dialed the two numbers over and over again

2010-07-15T00:09:00.003+08:00

I am supposed to be asleep at this hour, however here I am blogging. Sleepiness got kicked away by some scare-of-the-night. ): rahhs. Definitely not scares that are related to eeriness, I would have freaked out. Anyway, scare is too much of an exaggeration, worried is the appropriate word choice here.

Thank god, everything is fine. Just some irritant caused somethings to happen again, which resulted in me worrying for the safety of someone. At times, I think I am too overly paranoid about these things. However, today was so out of the norm that I had strong suspicions that something went wrong. I just couldn't go to bed, flipped around the bed while dialing the two numbers over and over again, trying hard to get through, leaving a dozen of smses, and I even had the intention to contact a friend whom was in contact with him!

ok, I gotta go le! nights all! :D

should I get this tattoo?

2010-07-10T09:09:00.005+08:00

Picture taken from http://www.visual-orgasm.com/

Then again who gets a Tattoo of their own name? I am not that narcissistic to want to get a tattoo of my own name!! However, upon seeing this picture, my anti-tattoo stand was wavered for that short moment. Don't you think this tattoo is really beautiful? The name makes it even more so (:

Looking at some of the other tattoo designs that Visual Orgasm does, I must say that I am impressed! Tattoos by them no longer reminds me of the "ah bengs" and "ah peks" from 369 (sa luck gao), they are drawn with so much details that it becomes an art piece, some looks so real that they sent shivers down my spine. Like this one:

Joker's tattoo!

Personally, this tattoo changed my perception on why do people get tattoos. I always believe that there is a story behind each and every tattoo, I wonder what the story is behind this one?

If you have decided to get a tattoo done after reading this post, do drop by

Virtual Orgasm

2 Haji Lane Singapore 189195

They offer a wide range of designs, which I am personally impressed. Please show me your tattoos after that, and perhaps you could ask the tattoo artist to sign off as inspired by Joan (: (:

P.S. Despite having my stand wavered, I would not expect myself to be getting a tattoo in the near future. I suspect I would be homeless in the case that I do get one. ):

the story behind that little tablet you pop into your mouth (:

2010-07-09T21:01:00.004+08:00

After one week of work at a Pharmaceutical Company, it sets me thinking about how serious and meticulous one needs to be when working in a Pharmaceutical industry. Quality departmentshas to conduct checks very carefully to ensure the safety of our customers taking the drugs. Every little step is not to be belittled. Checks are so thoroughly done that every single ingredient, be it the raw materials to synthesise the active pharmaceutical ingredient(API), the crude API, the purified API, the API present in the final drug form, the excipients (other ingredients that make up the drug besides the API itself), all these have to undergo various stages of testing. Failure in any one stage, depending on the magnitude of deviation, would trigger investigations and reports to account for the failure. Double checkings, with initials and dates are required for each and every step, such that no errors are tolerated. They even have special manuals and protocols to follow when washing/using/storing the apparatus. All the procedures they have to go through, and all those mentioned above constitutes only a small portion of the quality control department.

What about the manufacturing plant itself? Where conditions are even stricter as the drugs produced are to be released into the market for sale. Even the storerooms that issues safety equipments to employees are not spared, every single piece of information needs to be documented and accounted for. This is part of Good Manufacturing Process and Good Documentation Practice. This is the power of logbooks, logsheets, and MPS (Merck's Production System, something like the famous Toyota Production System), which summaries the complexity of a MNC at work.

For every action you take, keep in mind that the final product made is going to be released markets all over the world, and eventually someone is gonna take the tablet, in hope of improving his/her quality of life. This patient is putting full faith in the company that the tablet has been produced under stringent conditions with all the requirements met and that his/her health would improve after taking the tablet.

Purchasing a drug is not like shopping for clothes. You will be able to see a loose thread on a skirt, or a missing button on your shirt, but physically it would be impossible to tell if a drug is safe to be consumed just by looking at it. The safety lies in the hands of the company producing it, and that responsibility is huge. Always bear in mind that someday, your loved ones might be taking those drugs produced by the company, you would not want those drugs to hurt them would you? Every little step, no matter how tedious it is, matters.

Next time, before popping in a tablet, think about all the combined efforts that have been put together in order to produce that small little tablet. A lot has to be done. Do appreciate it. (:

I clicked on post with my magic mouse! :D

2010-07-05T21:41:00.005+08:00

As seen from the title above, I have finally gotten my magic mouse. (: (for those who doesn't know what a magic mouse is!) Dearest mummy got it for me! :D Our family went out for a little outing yesterday evening, destination was Marina Bay Sands. Walking along the Helix bridge, explaining to my family members about ATCG base pairs, and also the DNA double helix structure. The best part of it is, I explained most of that in Chinese. (: Only with those short pauses in between to clarify certain nouns. Joan, I am so proud of you!

Of course, with Epi Centres blooming all around new shopping centres in Singapore, Marina Bay Sands is bound to their very own authorised Apple reseller too. The purpose of entering an Epi this time round was for brother to replace his lousy iPhone cover that cracked, resulting in a blocked 3.5mm jack. Brother finally settled on the silicone Air Jacket after various attempts of testing and comparing textures between those Jackets. Conclusion of the day, Air Jacket jacks up their prices, but not their quality, in fact their quality is inversely proportionate/related to the cost. ):

After purchasing brother's Air Jacket, mummy suddenly asked me if I wanted the magic mouse! :D of course I do! Happily we paid for the magic mouse, to our dismay, 10% rebate does not apply to the magic mouse due to certain absurd reasons, which I could not comprehend. Even my MacBook Pro Charger was entitled to the 3% rebate! rahhs rahhs rahhhhsss.

With my index and middle fingers gliding and sliding around the slick looking magic mouse, immense enjoyment follows. (: In comparison with his predecessor, the mighty mouse, no mouse pads are required, 360 degrees scrolling is much personalised and carefree! You get to flick between photos, control the speed you want your scroll to be, eliminates the ache you get from using the trackpad, all in all, life's good. :D $98, totally worth it for a laser mouse! One of the regrets would be the removal of their side squeezing function, bid bye bye to one-squeeze exposé!

*edit* forget to mention that magic mouse is wireless. (: facilitates scrolling through an eBook from the comforts of my bed among my snoopies (:
Currently reading: I Believe You by Low Kay Hwa

revamped my blogskin!

2010-07-02T18:32:00.003+08:00

HELLO PEOPLE, YOU ARE AT THE RIGHT BLOG! :D I JUST CHANGED MY BLOGSKIN!

That sense of happiness after I revamped my old blog skin. (:

I am not sure what came over me today. All I know is the rain has dampen my plans to head out, and here I am stuck at home, reluctant to finish reading my P.S. I love you, 'cause I don't quite agree with the book, and I am partly angry at what is happening in the last few chapters. Just like the character in the book, I need some time to think through, perhaps also to reconsider the meaning of love from another point of view. This isn't the love that I am used to.

Back to my new blogskin, I can't say that I did the whole thing myself, all I did was to do some clicking here, moving sliders here and there, just to customise the whole blog to a "joanqiqi" feel (: somebody commented that my new blog skin looks pretty (: Thank you! :D :D The only part that was rightfully done by myself was the banner (: Decided to make something not so kididish like my previous one, played around with comic life once again, and got the banner done! It agree that it isn't perfect, it could have been better as I did not spend a long time doing it.

With the new blogskin, it marks a brand new start. A whole new motivation to blog too. (: I will try to blog more often from today onwards, in spite of the starting of my internship. With the internship ongoing, tuition ongoing, I can feel my life picking up speed. Routines after routines over and over again. Perhaps blogging will become part of this routine, to document my everyday life as an Intern, and also serves as a time machine, transporting us back to the past as and when I want to. (:

Blogging in English seems to be a considerable feat nowadays, pardon my Singlish. :P Efforts shall be made to cut down on Singlish, that shall be my 21 year old resolution. (I am not 21 yet, just 21-to-be) Revamping this blog was also part of the 21 year old resolution thing; I am too old for a childish looking blog. ):

Now, back to doing a lonely 21 year old thing, cooking dinner for oneself.

rainy day, so will it flood again?

2010-07-02T14:22:00.006+08:00

Today's weather was looking all so fine, all the way till I finish researching about my new-found love.

Those dark clouds succeeded in discouraging me not to get out of my house. Yeah, I found no exact purpose to go out if it was pouring this heavily. So here goes another wasted day. Feeling pretty free and alone now. Should have invited liyong over for Wii session! We have yet to complete our Mario and Sonic Winter Olympics, though its Summer now.

Life over the past one week was love. ♥♥♥
I get to spend almost every second of my life with dear dear(: (maybe minus the sleeping time)

This is the first time we ever took *muacks muacks* photos! :P

dear starts to think that he has a really tan chi dear dear :P I have been eating tibits non-stop, and reminding dear dear everyday about yummy chilli crabs!

They are the two little cuties that went wherever I went. (: I love them loads (:

24 hours of our road trip, etched forever in our memories! together with the many photos snapped and taken throughout the 24 hours. Going to many places for the first time in my life, falling in love with all those places and our never-ending conversations that makes time fly super-duper fast! Sitting on benches, along sandy beaches, under the yellow tint of moonlight shining through coconuts trees, feeling and smelling the strong sea breeze while looking at colourful lights shining from afar. Bliss. (: I prefer sitting on benches as opposed to on those break waters. The cockroaches on those break waters frightens me, and keeps my mind focused on looking out for them instead of concentrating on our ♥2♥talks.

Braving the stormy weather, and we had our piping hot breakfast at the macs in East Coast Park. It was an exciting moment as the water level outside macs were rising, almost level to the door, and the electricity in macs got cut off TWICE. (It bothers me as my WiFi connection was disconnected twice!) Though, it was a romantic macs breakfast with the lights off. heee (: macs should try out candle light breakfast. Just needed to mention this, it was really early in the morning, probably around 7 to 8 am? considering that we slept at around 2am the previous night, we had every reason for our sleepy eyes :P

sleepy eyes + dear's sunburnt face (minus the sunglasses marks!)

Just returned from our batam Spa retreat at Harris resort. Totally Rejuvenating. Though it was quite paiseh as I laid there giggling/shaking uncontrollably. The place was pretty and rather clean. Service was never without a smile! Seafood was darn good & cheap!! We ate a lot for two person! I just can't seem to stop thinking about the chilli crab!!! Urghhh.. hungrryyy now!! Ate a lot once again! A&W (: gosh! I wanted to steal one of their spoons back to remind myself of the wonderful Rootbeer float! Seasickness kicked in a little on our way back. With the noisy indo kids going out to Singapore for an overseas trip, dear dear was pissed. They were rude little rascals! rahhs. Our mood were ruined! Other than sleeping in too late and missing the hotel's breakfast, everything went fine (: I love swimming with dear dear! hee (: we shall go diving next! I overcome the fear of touching fishes, and you had to mention the jelly fishes, need to work on my fears once again :P ohh, and lets try bintan too (: I want to drive the buggy car!

After we were back from Batam, we crossed the seas once again over to JB for a half day trip! :D we got the best buy for the month! *right darling? :D Ate at Nandos, same food, same price, different currency! How good is that huh? I don't find the Hot and the Extra hot Peri sauce very good though. I prefer the garlic one! :D I think I secretly love garlics, just like how I love A&W garlic chilli and of course, THE ALL-TIME-FAVOURITES Mcdonalds garlic chilli! :D shopped around, dear got a geniune leather wallet, specially for overseas use! :P cheap cheap only and he bought it 'cause I kept reprimanding him about his wallet which cannot keep money neatly. :P ate our favourite Snow Ice! :D hee! (: yums to the max! I still can't find any shop in Singapore that sells Snow Ice better than them! Wanted to eat Baskin Robbins 31 too, but was too full, and we had no money left! :P We didn't even have enough money for dinner, and we didn't wanted to change more money as the exchange rate dropped till 2.29 ): rahhs. We, two poor little souls then decided to head back to my home and dear cooked the 22cents per packet of Indomie, imported all the way from Batam! :P of course, in order not to seem too pathetic, I fried some scrambled eggs and steamed a New Moon *atas* Otah! Home-cooked food are filled with loves and warmth. (: (: (:

This roughly summarised my life for the past one and a half week. (: gonna resume blogging soon. Anyway, for those who are still reading here, you can actually read at my Tumblr too. Short little updates are posted there (:

just a little quiz I saw on my friend's blog! :D

2010-04-15T14:38:00.000+08:00

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Words of Affirmation
with a secondary love language being
Acts of Service.

Complete set of results

Words of Affirmation:		7
Acts of Service:		6
Physical Touch:		6
Quality Time:		5
Receiving Gifts:		5

Information

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Shock?

2010-03-19T12:48:00.002+08:00

Firstly, I should say that I am very lucky, and I should be very happy that I managed to get into that particular company, together with one of my good friends from NUS.

Yes, I should feel very happy and I should be excited to accept it straight away. Though there are other concerns to consider.

Utmost concern, the other company which has yet to get back to us. And it will be either my friend or I who gets the place. If I am offered a place there, I think I will just join that company. (actually I am quite sure I will.)

Lastly, I think I did not do well for that company's interview, which I got in. (and my stomach was growling throughout the whole interview.)The questions which they "shoot" at me was not well answered. The "relationship" between me and the interviewer seems distant and awkward. ok, i am not very much comfortable with her. There is another candidate which I thought would definitely get in, but did not? Why?

Gosh. things are too true to be true? I don't know how to put my thoughts into words. This good news came as a surprise. Too much of a surprise. Can anyone believe that I actually panicked and was shivering after I got to know the news? I was no where close to this during any of my interviews!! Was it excitement? no, I don't think so. It is indescribable. Certain things are just like that.

Gosh gosh gosh. I could not think clearly. I still cannot think clearly. calm down and relax Joan qiqi. Please please please...

I gave up another company's interview. Should let others have a chance. Though that company is at Red hill. AND the one I am offered is at TUAS! 2 hours and 15min to travel there. Thank god! This is life and how things are supposed to be. Unpredictable as always. I was just saying that I won't ever get through the interview, and now this happened. hmm. Reflections will do me some good. Never jump to conclusions too soon.

touching

2010-02-17T21:40:00.000+08:00

Poker Face (Chinese New Year Version)

2010-02-12T20:57:00.001+08:00

upload pictures day! :D

2010-02-12T13:02:00.004+08:00

Just uploaded two albums on facebook:
3 year of loveesss

&

Mabelle loves me everyday (:

i think iPhoto rocks. :D
without it, you won't even see any photos being uploaded. :P

going to school for A 4 to 6pm lesson.
lousy prof, she should just cancel the lesson.
its CNY eve's eve!

Happiness is sipping a pint of Munich dark. (:

2010-02-10T23:55:00.007+08:00

enjoyed the day (:
Simple joy.
when my tutee is good.
when dear especially loving is.
when I have talks with brother.
when I snip some of my fringe off.
when I fall in love with another song.
when that song is by miley cyrus.
when it kept repeating in my head.
when I feel accomplished.
when positive I am.
when certain decisions are being made unconciously.
when friends reply your sms.
when friends catch up via sms.
when graditude is felt.
(: (: (:
Happiness is so simple.
First time feeling much better.
Being in control rocks.
Time still flies.
But I am gonna fly even faster and higher.

to beer buddy: you can do it too! (: overcome your emoness!

some photos (: loves!

2010-02-10T11:36:00.011+08:00

a post with many pictures which i chanced upon, browsing my iPhoto.
(: they made me smile. (:

the least studies weekend

2010-02-08T14:31:00.003+08:00

Friday, dinner at Dempsey hill Red dot. (:
Finally, the chance to go there. (: having two closer german friends who worked there.
Beer wasn't fanastic, it was good, but I preferred Tiger beer. and I insist that the Tower doesn't look like its 3.5 Litres. FAILLLLED!
It was our lucky day, despite having to accompany our "crippled" loser friend with her clutches. Fun clutches! HAHA!
I said lucky, cause our table won 2 $50 vouchers!! :D
there are only 6 vouchers to be given out! and we won it at the same time! lucky number 32!! haha! :D
Sent simin home, then back to weian's place! that loser couldnt stayover thanks to her torn ligaments.
Slacked, Explored, Roamed, Joked, Laughed at Scheiße place.
Guitaqr Hero-ed (Scheiße: Mic, SHIThead: drums, Me: guitar) from 1am to 4am?
Siao. pretty much zonnkked out. The coloured tabs falling looks blurry, as my eyes get teary.
that was before we discovered the no fail cheat, and we didn't manage to complete quite a number of songs. Finally, we couldnt stand it and off to bed at 4am! (:
Next, morning AT 5AM woke up to a woman's voice. yeah. Thanks to that Scheiße! took quite sometime to figure out how to switch it off. Managed to in the end, and went off to bed Again!

Saturday, 10am, time to wake up. Had maggi mee cooked by Scheiße's housekeeper! YUMS lo! haha! Scheiße doesn't wanna cook for us! :P
Studied, with SHIThead's vietnemese recital. Throughout, we snacked a lot! (: Scheißechen's dad prepared a cup of baileys coffee! :D nice!
we were muggers all the way till 5plus, and resumed our Banding roles. (:
Ended off with Taylor Swift's Love Story (Difficult level). and we passed!
anyway, I think Scheißechen loves me as clever me figured out how to play his metallica game :P

walked to a faraway bus stop with Scheißechen, quite a bit to catch up. HAHA. it was a great stayover, and we can have one at my place! (: with my M o D Wii (: bring your guitar and mic over ya!

reached home around 9plus, helped mom out with the praying stuff for the next day. & talked to dear on the phone for sehrr langggg! loves ❤

Sunday, woke at 9am. sorta slept for 4hours only? gosh. Helped mom with other miscellaneous preparation. went to temple afterwhich, relatives came over to my house. (: miss mabelle so mucchhh la!! :DD anyway, did i mention that i simply love talking to her? and she took lots of pictures with me and my three beloved snoopies!! She volunteered to! :D and she helped me take pictures with marcus too! HAHA! then, she asked me to carry her. cute huh? (: ohh, and we were making our names with blue tacks, and she made a ❤ after her name, which is connected to my name. - it reads Mabelle ❤ Leiqi (: I will post the picture up one day. (:
Malcom was also in one of his good mood that day! (: played with him! and he loves my $2.50 bottle! rolled it around. and cheeky boy, threw my minnie into the bowl where mom kept all her oranges! GOSH! minnie is taking a bath now. (: When i say "bao bao" he stretches out his hands to let me bao bao! and he waved at my brother before going home! ohh, and I secretly thinks that malcom doesn't recognise me when i wear specs! ): arghh.
after all my relatives left my place, cleaning up starts, and at night, an old uncle came over to my place for a visit. (: he kept on saying that I was only this(gestured around his knees) young when he last saw me (: I remembers me as that cute little girl (who drinks with her)! haha! (: nice talking to him. he is really talented!! I remember going to his dark room when i was young! ohhh! he is gonna give my brother an old Nikon SLR. *full of envy* & holga is not good according to him!! he left for home at around 10plus. and I went back to continue my homework. couldn't concentrate as I was too sleepy. :P and thus, good nights!
:D

enjoyed this particular weekend. (: so much done. but none (very little) school work. (:
Happy happy happy! :D

2010-01-29T13:44:00.003+08:00

sometimes i just wanna bury everything else.
by busying myself with all the heaps of shit that i need to do.

i dont even feel like seeing anyone, anymore..

maybe what i need is playing with some kids.
having interesting little dialogues with them, showing them love and care, its all so simple.
certain days: I just don't feel like being nice.
I'm tired.

☺Happy birthday dad!☺

2010-01-27T21:38:00.000+08:00

梦想因为爱而伟大－人月牌

misses ):

2010-01-27T11:04:00.005+08:00

when i miss somebody or something terribly badly.
tears just cant stop falling.
I don't have to know every single thing that is happening in other people's life, do I?
Then why at times I really want to find out, being afraid of missing out with the minutest detail..

even missing out on time, I feel sad.
of course I want more meet ups, more time for myself, more time to do more things...
nah, its not possible.
suddenly, when there are too many things to do, I don't know where to start.
and whenever I don't know where to start, I waste more time. Vicious cycle.

I feel guilty for agreeing to a meet and then to cancel it, due to the pressing deadlines of my other shit ass work to be done.

Finished resumé. and cover letter for GSK.
realised that my GSK's cover letter is too specific to be used for the other two companies.
Need to rephrase quite a few paragraphs for the other two.
haiss.
):
damn.
just let me get GSK.
and materials people, don't compete with us please..
GSK's pay is really little. only about $700 per month. I don't mind, but just let me have it please.

one last thing,
weian's sis leaving for Holland got me thinking.
Will I miss the people in Singapore more or will they miss me more when I am over in Germany?
The thought of being alone sucks.

this is just a little emo post flooded with tears, I will recover.

sneezing is no fun

2010-01-24T21:08:00.002+08:00

sneezes after sneezes.
What happened? plus sore throat, and THAT!!
): wow, all in one package.

Gave up wearing my retainers for a while, having at least three ulcers in my mouth now.
I will put them back, maybe tonight.

my last minute disease is coming back.
Everything seems to be piling up.
Taking Six modules this semester yet there is not a bit of sense of urgency in me.
Prelab is done, however it feels like something is missing somewhere.
Haven done prelab for such a long time.

go away last minuteness.

can't decide on where I want to intern.
Looking at all the companies again, those companies which sounded less prestigious actually appeal to me more. Except for the GSK goddess! Nothing can replace that.
saw one of the listed companies, it is based in Austria. German usage opportunties! Will definitely try for that too (:

bye peeps.
nobody reads here nowadays.

Buri Cha!

2010-01-22T13:53:00.003+08:00

happy day! :D
i cooked my brown rice tea! :D
followed the instructions and the taste was much stronger than the one I had in the restaurant.
added in more water, and boiled it even longer just so that I can make full use of the 100g of buri cha! (:

gonna let stef try some during lecture later. (:
brought a bottle for dear too! (:

anyway, Timetable no longer sucky!
and I accomplished my ten hours of Sleep last night! (:

lots of homework not done yet, but hais. no mood. shall do them after I enjoy this weekend. (:

dad's birthday present bought. (: love it!
Versace okies, don't play play!
wanted to get the Owell bracelet for dad, but he doesn't even wear the germanium one we got for him on Fathers' Day. ):
oh, just received email that there is Stammtisch on dad's Birthday. ):
nope, not going for Stammtisch. sadddsss... Need to pay $2!! haha!

nightmares not?

2010-01-15T10:32:00.002+08:00

one of the "nightmares" came true.
and i predicted that nightmare. gosh.
probably this is just a blessing in disguise. (:

ate mac with stef yesterday.
wanted to eat the prosperity burger badly!
to my dismay, there is no Chicken one. only beef.
wanted to buy the Dog's doraemon. Sold out too!
Twister fries were great though! I love the potato taste! :D

tomorrow, 3years anniversary le! ❤❤❤ (:
dear doesn't want to tell me what he wants! hmph!
i shall crack my brains to find out!

okies, suddenly feel like cooking. bye peeps! :D

eleven the sacred number.

2010-01-11T23:13:00.004+08:00

eleven. brother's L1R5.
3 points more than expected. more as in greater in value. meaning lousier than expected.

saying good bye to his dream school. ):
I will support his decision no matter what. (:
Appeal for it!
May he succeed.

"Celebratory" dinner at Changi Village Hotel.
had a long chit chat session with family.
Just the four of us. Warm and cosy feel. Simple life is loves.
& we saw chef William! (: haha, the Chef from Channel U programme.
He helped me toast my kaya bread! :D

first day of school.
tiring. ):
only two lectures, but lessons stretched from 8am to 6pm.
first lecture: 8am to 10am.
Second lesson: 4pm to 6pm.
not that I'm staying beside school or in the west, cant even go home, so I had to rot in school.
Stef and I went out for lunch at Woori Nara Korean restaurant tho.
Yummy! :D I think I'm totally exaggerating how nice everything taste.
Especially the brown rice tea. (: I think I am becoming addicted into drinking teas. (:

catching up session with quite a few people.
Kaiwei scared me with a freaking video. which i suspected something was wrong.
Short phone call with weian discussing about German stuff and our siblings' results.
smsed dawn. short chit chat session too.
busy us. ): no time for meet ups. ):
never mind, we have to work hard now!
Jiayou dawn! :D

& I need to start working hard. (or even harder than before)
timetable is shitty. hope that I will have time to handle my 6 modules.
might have to give up tuition. ): sad. ): no money. gonna take up new tuition jobs. I prefer Saturday tuitioning assignments.
Anyone wanna recommend? Emaths/Chemistry/Amaths. (: contact me ya. (: experienced tutor :P ha! :D

sunset in Germany. on our very last day.

kids overloaded!

2010-01-10T22:17:00.004+08:00

love the feeling of playing with kids! :D
Mabelle, Malcom, Nadine. and Sometimes I consider marcus a kid too :P

anyway, malcom had fun playing with me today! :D managed to coax him not to cry. (:

it was a little hard trying to juggle mabelle, malcom and chit chatting with marcus at the same time.
could tell that Mabelle was a little jealous when I diverted my attention to Malcom.
Though, everything was fine after a little distraction from her iPhone's cooking mama!
ha, I miss playing with them.
Mabelle's ideas are really creative, she told me she wants to be a an art teacher when she grows up. so cute. (:
so I told her she can teach my kids. and she said, "but I don't know your kids!" in a shy little voice.
adorable girl. Love her to bits! :D

Nadine isn't here today. She is over in Taipei. Flying back only tonight. (:
Miss plying with her too! she is super active! :D
that day before our genting trip, we dropped by her house in JB, and she was delighted! although it was already late at night, she didn't want to sleep and wanted to play with us. She showed me some toys and spoke to me in her, "Sim-ish" language! haha! damn funny! (okies, i like to assume that the kids are trying to convey something to me! Though, it might merely be a wishful thinking on my part.) :P

Lastly, brother's O level results out tomorrow. He seems stressed, and he cant sleep I think.
He suggested playing Wii at this hour. BUT! I have school tomorrow! okies, bad sister. ):
Nevertheless, I wish him luck, and may he get into his VJ la. If not, just appeal! haha, he dyed his ah beng hair black, and removed his biceps tattoo. no more beng. (:
good luck! :D we shall go have a celebration tomorrow! :D no matter what the results are. (:

P.S. talk to my brother the other night. Remembered the fact that I was hoping for a single digit. ): yeah. I was. and he knew. I don't understand how he can understand me this well. (: best brother in the whole wide world! :D

school reopens.

2010-01-10T09:55:00.000+08:00

another chapter of my life begins.
(: school reopens, with six modules this semester.
Six, not sure if i can handle them, but I've to.

I would miss the holidays for sure.
Overseas trips.
concluded with the one with dear, bro and cousin.
Genting isn't that boring with their company.
theme park. tried all the thrilling rides! :D WOOHOO!
but i was lousy, ): didn't feel good after Viking. Everything else was great! :P I need to train myself for Viking!!
Bowling!! :D we bowled everyday, haha! (: broke my thumbnail though. But it was a blessing in disguise, after breaking my thumb nails, I could bowl so much better! :P
It's true! :D Strikes came along! :D hee (: I'm good kks! :D
Pool! :D hehe, i'm not bad la! dear and I versus bro and cousin.
Overall, we thrashed them rather badly. Not cause I'm good. But cause dear is good and my bro is damn lousy! :P
Rock Climbing! it was fun climbing up, getting higher and higher. However, when you fall without warning, our life is at stake. Super Dangerous. I was totally freaked out. ok, i admit I gave up the climb after seeing dear flew down, with acceleration. ):
Arcade! played the basketball thing (: I'm good okies! :P felt damn tired after that. due to excessive tip toe-ing. I'm too short. can't see the hoop if I don't tip toe. ;) hehe! but still, I think I am good! bleahs! :P so proud of myself.
4 days of genting and I learned and experienced so many new games and sports! :D great company! without adults! :D
Buffet dinner was super duper bloated-ing. dear ate super a lot. We ate sashimi in heaps! :D haha. totally 值回票价! the Buffet dinner was at Genting Hotel. Coffee Terrace. cousin-in-law introduced us to that. (: imagine a huge food court. with different cuisines, and you can eat all you want! :D Woohoo! (: Fattening, and sinful! :P we sat there for four hours straight. looking at the tables opposite us, changing three times! HAHA! we were that "greedy". All these for about S$20 ! (: we had 30% discount! :D

Throughout the whole trip, cousin and dear love flaunting their superb four word chinese.
damn, my brother and I were totally loss for words. but I'm still A Level A okies! :P

Life was great. I love that December and early Jan.
Time to face the present. Study hard, woodstock.
(: (: (:

life is being practical

2009-12-31T09:58:00.004+08:00

realised that life is all about being practical.
So true.
I haven been around on Earth for a long enough time to realise this stark reality of life.
Glad to have someone 7 years older to enlighten me.

Haven been blogging for several weeks.
Last entry dated 2nd Dec!
Which was the last day of my exams.

Today, 31st december, I've decided to blog. (:
Just a little round up on December events! (:

Had been traveling for a great deal in December.
First, to Vietnam.
relaxation, shopping, etc etc.. (But not eating, seriously, I don't quite enjoy Vietnamese Cuisine.)

Then, to KL.
shopping, eating, shopping, eating, shopping, & ICE SKATING! (damn fun!)

Next, an impromptu trip to JB.
rebonded hair, treatment-ed hair, did all the miscellaneous "groceries" shopping, dinner with aunts and home sweet home. (:

Lastly, Genting trip next week.
theme park, casino-ing (maybe!), Karaok-ing, (:
totally looking forward! :D and this trip was really affordable (:.
S$50 for 3nights of hotel stay, good deal right? (:
(yesh, its first world. :P )

This short little one month holiday had been fulfilling.
(: family and friends gathering.
Family gatherings always ended up with people staying over at my place.
Nephew and Cousin stayed over. (:
our extra mattress was being carried out and into the storeroom several times.

Had a Boxing day BBQ at my cousin's place.
It was a bring-your-friend day.
haha. okies, so all the friends came.
not all, my brother's one didn't but he really doesn't have a friend! :P

Had Seven sisters welcome-enfant-home-party, plus celebrate Xmas party.
Attendance was good, but everyone had to leave early, and I was there on & off to settle my Wii problems.
& we are pretty much caught up with watching the Korean show on Channel U to catch up.
Good to be seeing everyone (:
& there was a short NUS gathering in the end (as always).
experienced jiawei's driving, and had fun driving around the carpark. to avoid the carpark attendant! :D

Had Xmas gathering (or rather Boxing day) at desmond's NEW house too!
lots of people, but i was feeling rather stoned la.
tired, bloated and not feeling very well. ):
went pubbing after that at iluma. (:
Had a squeezy squishy car in a BMW.
poor dear dear. :P

Pubbing was fun with darts and pool! :D
sadly, pub closed at 1am. & we headed home.
how can a pub close so at 1 am right?
Bro & cousin was at my place, and they bet on what time I will be home.
Bro won :P

ohhh, and a long time ago, went K box with Kes, Stef and Kris to celebrate Kes's birthday.
She suggested celebrating her birthday :P
Thick skinned one! :P

pictures will/might be uploaded on Facebook. (:
stay tuned!

Mr beanie snoopy!

2009-12-02T10:17:00.002+08:00

he is waving hello!

Proud that he is a SNOOPY! :D

Imitating Superman kor kor!

i am not fat! :D

see my new reddy house! :D
with graduate snoopy!

new addition to the family!

2009-12-01T16:10:00.003+08:00

He is Mr beanie Snoopy! :D
supposed to come with beanie woodstock,
but WOODSTOCK NO STOCK!
yeah, still no stock. my secret plan failed.

nevertheless, i believe that woodstock will have stock one day! :D

Mr beanie snoopy, 小豆豆 (:
is very VERY FAT! (looks like Puffer fish! *quoted from my brother*)
entered peanutsland on the 30nov, after receiving a count down from 10 message! :D
its my birthday gift from my brother! :D :D :D
thanks desmondsuperman!

okies, one short little post about my birthday gift.
Thanks to all who remembered and sent your wishes.
Phone calls, sms, msn, physically wishing, twitter, facebook, tagboard, emails... (:
vielen Dank!

oh, and I have not checked my facebook and I don't really intend to check facebook by tonight, (trying to resist the temptation of facebook.)
I will reply those facebook wishes after my exams tomorrow! :D
can't wait for exams to end!
I have to admit that there is no study mood, and i am just forcing myself to mug on.
Last chance to mug!
tomorrow at this time, I will be at Bukit Timah, enjoying the wonderful korean chicken!
yayness to end of exams!

I will try to upload more photos.
no promises. try only!

oh ya, german brunch at Paulaner Brauhaus rocks my socks! :D
1 litre of beer! :D lots of sausages. Pork knuckles! Bread! Movenpick ice cream! Tiramisu dessert! great company ❤
heee! (: BUT! damn EX! $45++ inflation! used to be $43!
worth it though. it will be one memorable experience etched in the heart. (:

snoopy ❤ me! (:

2009-11-28T16:54:00.006+08:00

Don't worry about the day ending today,
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schulz

Picture of the day!

and my beloved snoopy plushie! he's still the cutest!

damn, i want this!

woodstock no stock!

2009-11-12T11:46:00.002+08:00

there was this beanie woodstock and snoopy soft toy that I wanted to buy.
BUT there is no more stock for woodstock! and they won't be getting any new stocks!
):
Scheiße ):

should have bought it long ago.
now snoopy doesn't have a partner!
almost all my snoopies have partners you know! ):

Scheiße!!! ):

❤

2009-11-11T09:41:00.003+08:00

True love doesn't have a happy ending,
true love has no ending...

uncertainties..

2009-11-09T22:43:00.002+08:00

there are certain things whereby i myself cant understand.

heard that German Semester test 2 tomorrow will be hard. ):

there goes my B+...

keep smiling & hang in there.

2009-11-05T21:27:00.006+08:00

sometimes i feel really happy.
and other times i feel really sad.
don't ask me why, cos I really dun know.

today is a happy and sad day.
don't ask why, again.
just like that.

i may look happy here. but this is not today. it is just one of those days that I feel extremely happy.

i want to be happy every single day.
i mean every.
i try to be very happy every single day.
but why? why i am not happy every single day and every single moment?

are studies driving me crazy? not really.
and i don't know what is driving me crazy.

i know that are many who love and care for me.
This never fails to make me happy.
every single time i think of it.
even now, i am smiling.

maybe i should think of this every time i get unhappy.
maybe everyone should think of how they are loved.
just that, at times, i will cry too when i get too happy.
okies, i've concluded that maybe i am crazy.

i miss drinking starbucks.
wanted to buy a cup after school today. BUT was too lazy to walk over.
):

back to study for cm2161 and german vocab test.
i did badly for vocab the previous time.
i really don't want to S/U my german...

fly me to the moon (:

2009-10-21T10:49:00.007+08:00

time flies and so do I.

Cousins, auntie, uncle, nieces and nephews away for a holiday in Tokyo.
Full of envy!

(oh, nadine and eeyuen is back in Singapore too! Nadine is sooooo CUTE!)

Brother and I stuck here in Singapore.
Brother having O level starting from today.
First paper: PE theory.
also the first time ever Singapore is having PE as an O level subject.
Had a peek at what he was studying, and realised that it is NOT EASY at all!
Anatomy. Safety Aspects on Sports. Sports Management. etc etc.
woah. overwhelming. a little biology, physics and chemistry here and there.
Interdisciplinary. Feels like my pharmacy module.
Hope that he does well. (: the suckiest thing is there is NO TYS. Haha.
Wonder what will it be like.

MICKEY MOUSE SHOUTS, "KOR KOR JIAYOU!"

updates on my travel plans this year end.
Sadly, I really think no more Bangkok.
Too expensive. Why should we travel so ex when we can get it at a much cheaper price next year? ): Plus, I need to save money for my SEP. Don't think i will have enough money. and there is only tuition for my P5 kiddo. No more for the other 2. ): this sucks. NO INCOME!

Vietnam is still on (: can't wait! Have never gone to Vietnam before. HEE :D ilovenewplaces :D

Alrights, back to studying for my organic chemistry. Thanks Stef and Kes. they sorta motivated me to start studying for organic. nope, I wont give up. Its getting better with my Heavy Holy Textbook. I Love the Expensive Textbook! and I know I can FLY (:

*p.s. damn nice song! :D hooked!
----------------
Now playing: Lonestar - Amazed
via FoxyTunes

so much to study, so little time.

2009-10-18T21:50:00.003+08:00

lots to study for German Vocab test.
It sucks.
no motivation/drive to study for it.
):

some pictures (with dear and Asahi) to perk up this boring blog post!

I sorta liked the following photo very much!

Asahi si good. but not as good as Deutscher Bier/ Tiger. But they are different I would say.
Haven drank German beer for ages. Miss it lots!
made up my mind to go for Paulaner Brahaus Sunday Brunch! :D $33++!
saving money!

German language society Stammisch tomorrow.
Sorta looking forward to it. Though heard that response isn't that good.
Nevertheless, I have to make my 8 bucks worth it right?
and there is Tiger for the night! :D hopefully.

cycle,study,cycle.

2009-10-17T16:58:00.003+08:00

bored of webcasting...

Back from cycling to NTUC! :D bought HAAGEN DAZ!

(: heheh (:
bye! off to webcast!

blogging from i780

2009-09-25T16:03:00.000+08:00

(: hello! joan qiqi is slacking again!

she has new mooncakes to enjoy too! durian flavour you know!! (:

counting down to end of recess week.

2009-09-24T17:10:00.004+08:00

I thought that I couldn't make it, but I am slowly gaining speed and momentum.

For the whole of recess week, the only things that I have completed:
✔ First section of that level 3 pharmacy module
✔ German essay that was due today

Considered very very very little.
German essay was supposed to be done in a few minutes time? I spent more than an hour doing it. 50 words, but I went on to 86 words. I re-checked my grammar many times. Let them be correct please.
Another German HAG yet to be done, i think. From tutorial. But First and foremost, I need to find out where have I written those HAG..

First section of my pharmacy module. Hope that I have done a good job in revision. Don't intend to look back at those notes again before the test. Still have several more case studies to go. Several = 5 sets of lecture notes. HAHA! bless me.

Serious mugging started only yesterday. Today, whole day of mugging except for the normal facebook distractions. and blogging now.

Much more to go. 2 Lab reports, including one killer - Hyperchem (the short report itself is 24 pages! GOSH)
Haven touched Cm2121. AT ALL! I can't give that up although I feel like it. (ihateorganicchemistry!)
Touched a little of CM2161. That's my favourite module of the Semester. Gotta do well!
More to go for PR3101. That's another of my favourite module of the Semester. Will try to do well.
German HAG.
Prelab for next Tuesday.
I think there are certainly more to add to the list... but I just could not/choose not to remember them.

The only way to complete everything, is to not sleep! (:
HAHA! I will try to sleep as little as possible. Drink chicken essence daily.

dinner with dear at botak jones yesterday! :D HUGE PORTION! but we managed to finish. (:
monday, dear treated my family to BBQ and steamboat! at my tutee's mom new place. YUMS* we agreed to go back there again, with my brother. Just the three of us. and maybe with xiaobiaojie and her JJ too, if they are interested.
last saturday, dear made me drink the awful Ginger beer, while I forced Bitter Lemon upon him. :P Went to have authentic Hainanese chicken rice at Purvis Road. Damn good!

Supposed to go into malaysia this weekend, but I think I have decided not to go. ): noTIME!
Supposed to go dye hair soon. But suddenly can't decide whether I should waste that money.
Supposed to be studying now, but I am here blogging!
BYE! (: CAN'T LOSE MY SPEED AND MOMENTUM!

They are so cute (: yup, THEY.
Love them!

the cute animation!

2009-09-17T21:47:00.003+08:00

I grew richer today. but i cant get those money into my BANK ACCOUNT!! ):
German test tmr. wish me luck. I think i cant make it. feeling upset with myself for I dunno what reason. I wanted to do other things, but the Test is tmr. I should study that, yet, it is not productive at all. maybe if i had done other things, it might be much more productive. What happened to the interest in German. Haiz. ): watching this video really cheered me up! maybe I will be able to focus on my German for 5 more minutes...

Dinner with six sisters tomorrow. I reserved seats for seven. yeah. blur me. i miss enfant too musch that's why. ):

MUST WATCH! :D

2009-09-15T21:32:00.002+08:00

She is fantastic! Imitating many singers and even cartoon characters! :D

anyway, I survived the day! so proud of myself. (: only 4 hours of sleep! gosh. ):

no more complaints.. ✌

2009-09-06T20:06:00.000+08:00

Joan has learnt that she should stop complaining about her workload.
don't ask her why did she come to this sudden realisation, but she just knows that it's doing her no good to grumble and complain.
That's life.

Plus, she do enjoy what she is studying now. Frankly speaking.
Even lab reports seems so fine at times.
Even if she is gonna get thrashed by everyone in all the modules that she takes this Semester, she will have no complaints. She chose this path. This is what she wanna do.

I CAN DO IT! :D YOU GO GIRL!! :D

❤ Something worth mentioning: Had a greatest day of the month with my dearest him yesterday :D
Great food(from brunch till dinner), Great ambience, Great company. What more to ask for? Pure bliss (: loves ❤

p.s.: xiao long bao buffet with seven sisters(but not enfant) this friday! :D please.. i hope that everyone can make it! haven had a full gathering for such a long time!

♫oh people and I finally uploaded most of the pictures into my computer! Will start uploading pictures soon! :D erm.. i try to promise!♬

on a totally random note.. my brother praised that my nail polish is nice! (black, purpish, pinkish flash.) :D hee (: mama also like those nail polishes! :D OPI does miracles i suppose!! :D

how true..

2009-08-30T01:08:00.003+08:00

"Writers are big procrastinators. They find countless reasons not to get started. Even when they finally get themselves seated at their desks, they always seem to find diversions: make the coffee, sharpen the pencil, go to the bathroom, thumb through more literature . . . Remember that you are never `ready' to write; writing is something you must make a conscious decision to do and then discipline yourself to follow through."
(Bogdan, R.C. and Biklen, S.K. 1982)

Easier said than done but waiting for the 'right' moment might take forever. It's better to make an early start.

I was reading the link on how to write a lab report, and this was what is says.
Which I have to say is very much applicable to me. Especially at this moment. Here I am once again blogging about this.

Anyway, I posted my status on Facebook- Sometimes I really don't get it. Why do humans have to do lab reports? How practical are lab reports?
And easily within minutes several friends on facebook "liked" my status. See? Lab reports are a waste of precious brain cells.

Alrights, I should Start right now! Its not quite an early start anymore.
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Now playing: Lonestar - I'm Already There
via FoxyTunes

The ah beng song! (:

2009-08-29T14:25:00.001+08:00

Singapore Ah-Beng Song - FM 98.7 Perfect 10

Happiness finds me once again (:

2009-08-29T10:46:00.001+08:00

Darling MBP is back to its owner in Peanuts Land once again. (:

MBP is gonna start doing work for his owner. (:
JIAYOU!!

stress starts bulding up.

2009-08-27T22:26:00.000+08:00

SAD THINGS...
everyone starts to mug.
everyone gets hardworking.
that includes me. time is tight, and schlafenzeit ist diminishing.
lab that day wasn't fine.
I was late for German for 45 minutes?
How fine can it get? ): I would never want to be late ever again.
German (and maybe PR3101) are my favorite lectures.
Sucks.
and i cant believe that I actually prefer level 3000 modules. What's wrong with me?

HAPPY THINGS..
went over to ION orchard with kesleen to collect my OPI nail polish!
They are finally here! :D
Happy! :D just applied them. (: pretty pinkish red.
Had Gustimo with kes. (:
with a mini chit chat session.
it has been long since we talked.
there is this really heartwarming feeling whenever I talk to saggi buds.
Guess we are both saggis.
And it seems that she truly understands and see things in my point of view.
Kes and I decided to reserve a seat for 4 for xiao long bao buffet tmr.
However, it was already fully booked! ): arghs.. ):
Never mind. We promise to go again!

Dad doesn't want to fetch me to school again tomorrow.
damn it. waking up at 550am is shit.
haiz. it affects my concentration level in lectures.
I am going to down a can of red bull tmr again.
8am to 8pm.

MUST WATCH! :D

2009-08-26T09:28:00.002+08:00

cute and lovable little korean girl dancing! :D
She made my day!

my macbook pro is hospitalised. ):

2009-08-22T10:17:00.001+08:00

Warranty is over, but Apple was nice enough to replace the mother board for free. (:
Though I won't quite say that Apple is nice, as it was all along their problem to start with. :P

Blogging from my Brother's white Macbook now. Poor brother, he has to be parted from his MB cos of me!
However looking on the bright side, I am actually helping him concentrate on his studies. HAHA!
He has gotten an A1 for his Chinese! (only 16 people from his school got A1 for MOTHER TONGUE.pathetic eh?)
Nevertheless, great job bro! Just like his sister (: HAHA!
We're all Chinese Pros. (:

I miss my MBP):
My heart ached when I couldn't wake it up from its sleep mode. (okies, I literally teared too. ):)
Traurig, es ist mein Schatz! ):
Come back to me soon. (Speculated to be later part of the week.)

Workload from school is getting heavier as expected.
Even without all the tutorials and labs.
Can't imagine what life would be like loaded with tutorials, labs, tuition, etc etc.
So far, I guess I have been rather on track and coping well. (ok, maybe not. just let me live in denial for a while.)
Had been paying attention in all lectures except for probably Organic Chem ):
CM2121 is crap serious!
Everything is so messy, and the Prof reminds me so much of a more untidy Jaenicke.

I tried to pay attention in his lecture but I will drift away every now and then.
His voice is so lullaby-ish. He loves to crack jokes which is helpful in keeping me awake, but I get carried away by those jokes and my train of thoughts get distracted. Gosh, once again an Organic Nightmare.
I have landed myself in this heap of trouble. I don't quite have to take Organic Chemistry actually.
But for the sake of my graduation on time(hopefully), Organic Chem is here to pester me again.
Organic Chem is more of an Elective then a Core. crazy right? Who takes Organic as an Elective one? (Except for those Maths Major.)
Alrights, time to organise my Organic Chem notes. (they are freaking expensive to print! Cos they are coloured. -I chose to print them coloured. I only have myself to blame once again.)

For the past week, I didn't manage to complete CM2161 tutorial and also prep for PR3101 lab.
Lab was not as great. Shall not elaborate further.
Incompetency was partly due to CMAD and the hospitalisation of my MBP. ):
CMAD was good! HAHA! seeing wawa getting kicked,thrown and also "mopping" the floor with his body? HAHA!
@wawa your actions are caught on video! :P
Unexpected discovery of NUS Museum open house.
Sculptures of squashed up koreans by a Korean sculpturer.
Not that I know how to appreciate art, but they look interesting and scary when viewed in certain angles.

Drew out a long do-to-list for the weekend.
hais. not going out with dear this Saturday. Ops manning.
However, going for 30/06 class gathering. (:
Not having tuition on Sunday too. going temple. then giving aunt a mini birthday celebration thereafter.
With the huge amount of time that I am actually staying at home for the weekend, I hope to complete at least 75% of my tasks.

Anyway, did I mention that dear is going for reservist again.
Army sucks. :P
Forever calling dear up.
That isn't the gist of the problem.
Calling him up on is birthday is the irritating thing.
damn it(eat) shit.

oh, I caught The Hangover recently.
Alternative to The Proposal. (cause there were too few timeslots at late timings as they were only sneak previews.)
The Hangover was pretty shitty la.
Crappy show. With Nudity, lots of F-words etc etc. [NC16 only] (dear enjoyed it tremendously. his kinda show.)
Though I would say that the plot was not bad.

Caught the Jack Neo movie, Where got Ghost?
erm. one word - SUCKS!
don't waste money. This kinda movie can just buy DVDs is you really wanna watch it.
Worst of all his shows.
Its a trying too hard movie. and the jokes aren't funny.
This movie has been topping most of the Cinemas box office 'cause it has really too too many timeslots everywhere.
There were about 5 timings of screening per day even when it was in its sneak preview period of time.
If you do your probability right, you will definitely realise that it is impossible NOT to top the box offices.
Just don't watch. If not you will regret. (Its even worse than Harry Potter if you think that Harry Potter was bad.)

Lastly!! I SO WANNA CATCH THE PROPOSAL! :D
gonna catch it with dear before he goes for reservist which is next next monday. ):
Need to find a good timing though. With my 3-days-till 8pm time table. 3 days of tuition. blah blah blah. ):
buais! :D back to MUG! (Russell, I go to school that early just to mug. :P )

Why is Love blind?

2009-08-18T21:22:00.000+08:00

Do take some time to read this. I love it, and so will you.
The tale of Love and Madness

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for the first time, virtues and vices floated around and were bored, not knowing what to do.

One day, all the vices and virtues were gathered together and were more bored than ever. Suddenly, Ingenious came up with an idea: Let's play
hide and seek!

All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted: I want to count, I want to count!
And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek Madness, all the others agreed.
Madness leaned against a tree and started to count: One, two, three...

As Madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding.
Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon, Treason hid in a pile of garbage.
Fondness curled up between the clouds and Passion went to the center of the earth.
Lie said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake, whilst Avarice entered a sack that he ended up
breaking.
And Madness continued to count: ... seventy nine, eighty,
eighty one...

By this time, all the vices and virtues were already hidden - except Love.
For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where to hide.
And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide Love.

Madness: ...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven...
Just when Madness got to one hundred, Love jumped into a rose bush where he hid.

And Madness turned around and shouted: I'm coming, I'm coming!

As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found, because Laziness had no energy to hide.
Then he spotted Tenderness in the horn of the moon,
Lie at the bottom of the lake and Passion at the center of the earth.
One by one, Madness found them all - except Love.

Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of Love, Envy whispered to Madness: You only need to find Love, and Love is
hiding in the rose bush.

Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the rose bush.
Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop.
Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his face with his hands.

Between his fingers ran two trickles of blood from his eyes.

Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out Love's eyes with a pitch fork.
What have I done! What have I done! Madness shouted.
I have left you blind! How can I repair it?

And Love answered: You cannot repair my eyes. But if you want to do something for me, you can be my guide.

And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is always
accompanied by Madness.

There are some people who meet that somebody that they can never stop loving.
There are some love that don't go away.
But we should all be lucky to end up with that somebody who has a little of that insanity.
Somebody who never lets go.
Somebody who cherishes you forever.

❤❦♥❥

love makes the world go round (:

2009-08-14T23:21:00.004+08:00

I was feeling bored. So I started doodling with Picasa again.
I have to say that I prefer Comic life! :D
Picasa hang on me! ):
Thus, I lost my patience..
Here is it.. nothing very nice.

i love those little things you do.
they make my world go round and round.
JIAYOU dear(:

Pharmacy module was like a Rocket ride.

2009-08-13T21:27:00.002+08:00

Rocketed through PR3101 today.
Woah. quite an experience.
There is no chance for me to even rest my brain.
Information over over overLOAD!
There are too too many examples of drugs that she mentioned,
and I cant take down any of those drugs as I seriously do not know how to spell them.

This is a module which Year 3 Pharmacy Students are taking.
YEAR THREE MIND YOU!
they are year 3s and they have fulfilled the module pre-requisites which is another level 1 PR module.

Who are we, applied Chem students, compared to them?
GOSH!

Nevertheless, I have to say that this module is really quite interesting.
I am reading up for Lab tomorrow.
Pharmacy lab is cool!
sitting in an airconditioned computer lab, without ugly googles and labcoats, designing drugs! (:
(definitely my cup of tea! Can I change major to Pharmacy instead?) :D :D :D

After the pharmacy module today, we, went for our Swensons 1-for-1 ice cream Buffet at ION orchard.
Nothing fantastic. Quite sick of their ice cream.
And warning to those who want to try the SARSI flavour, IT TASTE LIKE MEDICATED OIL!
and the Durian taste like JACKFRUIT?/LYCHEE?
the menu looks far too apealling to be true.
Once, is enough. Wont go back again, for sure.
(if i am at ION, and i feel like eating ice cream, I woulld definitely choose
GUSTTIMO!)
PICTURES WILL BE UP SOME OTHER DAY. :P

oh.. and Armani Exchange in ION is opened!! :D WOOHOO-ED!
wanted to go take a look, but my brother called to meet up.
yeah, I MUST go soon!
that little glimpse into the shop seems promising.

UNIQLO is opened too.
that scam.
lots of people today.
but no crazy queue like the one in Tampines One.
Seriously, UNIQLO is just Japanese Giordano.
Nothing too wow-ish about the shop.

that's about all for today.
tomorrow is a slack day.
2 lectures are cancelled.
(yeah, NUS lecturers are so slack.)
only one Pharmacy lab. (:
back to reading for lab!

one out of many days of my routine.

2009-08-11T23:30:00.000+08:00

First day of school and it was tiring.
To make things worse, I am still having my sudden coughing attacks, which I tried hard to suppress, gulping down huge quantities of water.
Tiring, for, I had lessons from 8am to 8pm.
Not exactly for the full 12hours, but there were bubbles in between.
This is what my Tuesdays&Fridays are gonna be like from now onwards.

Several hiccups in labs.
Confusion here and there.
Being in Applied Chemistry has its Pros&Cons.
Overloading for TWO semesters is reality! ):
plus the possibility of special semester.
Not considering the fact that I am going for SEP in Germany, and module mapping is gonna be a huge DISASTER!
Once again, I am inspired to go for my internship in Germany.
Time to brush up my German. *& curryflavor Prof J!*
WAHAHAHA! *my little evil plan*

We, (Russell, Kesleen, Stef and I) have decided to enjoy our week 1 of school.
going for an ice cream buffet at ION! :D
This Thursday!
Swensens! 1 for 1 offer! :D
cant wait for Thursday to arrive. (:

I am actually Loving&Hating tomorrow's arrival.
Loving: dinner with dear.
Hating: Tuition before that.

P.S. I enjoy one hour of tuition, but not the other hour. shucks. this sucks.

Blogger still unfine!

2009-08-07T23:16:00.002+08:00

Bad blogger.
The top bar is still missing.
I cant upload my pictures and I no longer bother to upload them. :P

Went for the Flyer ride with my cousin and brother yesterday.
Not a bad experience.
However, I was sick. *coughcough* *sneezesneeze*
Didn't get to rent my Audio Guide cause my lovely brother and cousin were "laughing" at me! ):

Nevertheless, we had a great time taking lots of photos on the flyer.
Not easy though. With our lousy compact cameras what do you expect right?
We made do with the edges of the flyer as our Tripods! :D

will upload the pictures soon!

:D and i bought my birthday present for myself but it must be given by dear dear! :D
okies, i am siao. but i have a reason for doing so kks!
:D

then there was a mad rush to the DC heroes shop and the Build-a-bear shop!
Snowie got a new Princess dress and nice pinky heels!
While my brother got a new SUPERMAN jacket!
and the salesgirl gave him another free t-shirt! (i dunno why?)

forget to mention, Snowie is really cute! :D
Sweetie pie Princess! she is gonna add me on facebook! Right snowie?

GET FREEBIES(or rather samples) HERE!

2009-08-05T23:11:00.000+08:00

Being such an auntie, just like kesleen and liyong...
We, the aunties, pledge to try everything under the sun before we invest our money on a reliable product!
Times are bad. So Time for Freebies! :D

Rise and Shine!

2009-08-03T11:05:00.001+08:00

Early morning and I am sneezing!
The sneezing germs diffuse from dear to me, through the Starhub phone line.

Leaving house soon for seven gathering. but kesleen wouldnt be going. ): no complete gathering.

Went over to mabelle's place on Saturday. She is so CUTE!
malcom too! he knows how to do push ups! haha! :D
but it terrifies me when babies cry!
gonna upload photos when the stupid blogger is working. (which i suspect will take forever.)

gone to ION too on saturday too.
the Gusttimo ice cream is really nice! YUMS!
(:
ION was an eye opener i would say. with everyone around you carrying BURBERRY/LV/GUGGI bags. (those three were the most prominent. Especially the LV monogram.)
gosh, surrounded by rich KIDS. (they are around my age or even younger.)
food there was not affordable. the food court was actually food republic. But they changed the name to food opera instead.
A plate of Hokkein mee cost $5.50. most ex than the wisma one. doesn't taste fantastic. :(

There is Dunkin Donuts too. but i wonder why should dunkin donuts even come back when Donut Factory and J Co. are making better tasting donuts than dunkin.
Each-a-cup made its way to B4 of ION. (shows that Each-a-cup is high class BubbleTea!) Pricing same as that at Tampines 1.

The big SCAM UNIQLO is not opened yet. HAHA, BIG SCAM.

Lim Chee Guan's 2nd store was opened there too. I am not a fan of their BAK KWAS. :P

There is a Strudel place that sells YumYum Mango and Durian Strudels according to the tastebuds of Marcus!
Gonna buy some back soon! :D

i knew i loved you before i met you

2009-07-31T16:04:00.000+08:00

My blog looks dead
Haven been blogging for quite some time.
and this blogger layout seems to look haywired too. Why? What has happened? Cant be because I haven logged in for such a long time right?

This blog entry was particularly triggered by my xiao biao jie who has celebrated her sweet 21st yesterday!
how lucky! I haven reach the digit 2 yet tho! (not that I am looking forward to it! ):)
I shall rumble on and type really fast cos my MBP is burnign on my laps. and my almost-dried-up facial mask seems to sliding off my face slowly.

Todayis cousin Eeping's Birthday.
She sent me a last minute invitation to dinner at Traders!
Thus, Singapore Flyer with xiao biao jie has to be postponed. once again.
Waiting for my brother to come home nd we will have to do another round of last minute birthday shopping! gosh!
We had one round of last minute shopping yesterday after our Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince.
Last Minute Shopping, in my humble opinion, stimulates brain cells regeneration.

*okies, i am gonna remove that mask falling to my neck!*
and then, *poof* my bro is home!
so i busy getting ready!
bye! :D

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Now playing: Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
via FoxyTunes

fallen sickkk.

2009-07-01T09:54:00.004+08:00

hi friends, sorry if it seems that Joan has completely disappeared from your lives.

anyway, i have been down with a really high fever since sat morning after i came back from Melaka. Fever as high as 40.1ºC. WTH.
Fever accompanied by frequent diarrhea and some vomiting. (I just vomitted some liquidy bitter things out. it stinks!)KNS.

the best thing is THEY freaking suspect that i kena H1N1 when i have came back from Europe for close to 2 weeks and i have got no flu symptoms at all! i was quarantined for one day in my room. ): damn shitty. then the next day they told me my test was negative.
The next best thing was that they sorta forget to send me back on the 993 Maxi Cabs. They totally left me there for close to 2 hours in the freaking hot N95 mask with all the might-be-infected people! it wasn't until i complained that my transport still wasn't here then they quickly arranged one for me.

AND the doctor refuse to do any blood test for me! He just insist on solely doing the H1N1 test and that's it. the medicine he gave were similar to what my GP had given me. rahhss.

oh, and i am still supposed to avoid going out in the crowd, look out for any SWINE flu symptoms, etc etc... all the way until this Sunday. ):
plus, my fever still has not subside.. the doctors still dunno what's wrong with me.
did a blood test yesterday, results will be out today.
haiz. ):

many thanks to all those who were so concerned. i will get better. (: don't worry.
i had to miss out on so many things just cos i am sick! that is so not worth it!
my transformers with dear dear )':

melting here!

2009-06-23T10:23:00.003+08:00

i am back! since last monday! :D
life has been great in Singapore.

Albeit, missing all the great things in Germany. Weather, beer, cheese, Chocolates, People!, Wurst! :D gosh! back to Singapore is actually returning Back to Reality!
In this short one month, I have learnt precious, non-german related lessons.
Met numerous people with different mentality to things and will react differently to things. interesting i would have to say.

Coming back to Singapore = "lock me in an ice box!!"
I am melting here, sitting in front of my MBP. come on someone! please, create an aircondition DOM to surround Singapore!

Had a few gatherings ever since monday!
I finally saw my cutie nephew, "shaolin xiao he shang"! hehe! (: and my cheeky mabelle, and mischevious marcus! Celebrated Daddies' day together with Sharkfin(Whatever to Earth Gaia.. isit even part of this campaign?), melted tiramisu cake!, mummy+auntie+uncle+cousin's cooking, LOTS of CHOCOLATES from Germany!, play+swimming, karaoking!,

Had a 4 sisters gathering at my house! it was a mahjong session! me, stef, kes and liyong! the lousy mahjong player! haha! and i won! :D hehe! :D i am the pro mahjong player! though liyong was lousy, we managed to get a man fan!! must be beginners' luck!

Last friday morning went to send enfant off at the airport! She left for India. (land of jasmine and curries!) I woke up at 5am just so that i can send her off!! my biological clock is totally screwed up! nevertheless, it was a fruitful airport visit! cos i get to drink an early morning Starbucks drink! (: Starbucks in Germany was totally unaffordable!

My saggi SMS buddy is not in town now! and by the time she comes back, i wont be in town! rahhhss... I miss the days where type long essays to one another! haha! and how we talked about almost everything under the sun! i think she got most of the gifts i bought back from germany! cos i always think of her whenever i see something!!! RIGHT KES?? haha! but i will be back by saturday! :D we can continue our long sms chat on saturday then!! i bet BKK shopping was great! :D i wanna go too lo! wonder if you managed to get my wooden slippers!

oh ya, as i was saying i will be away in Batam till this Fri. (: its a last minute family getaway!! alrights man(:

dinner date with dawn and sheena tonight! :D

and sorry to wei'an and kaiwei! We will have to postpone our brotzeit day to next Wednesday instead! :D Bis dann!

Predeparture!

2009-05-13T11:20:00.003+08:00

hello friends!! (:
I am leaving for Germany tonight. (13May)
840pm flight!

Anyway, those who wanna add me in Skype, search for me using my msn email, but change the @hotmail.com to @gmail.com.

Email me at the @gmail.com email also. Wont be checking my hotmail.
Something terrible has gone wrong with my hotmail... Windows stuff are like that one!

See ya in a month's time!
coming back on 15th June.
Morning 1115 flight! (:

Au revoir!

Thanks to the seven sisters for Bon Voyage card! Nicely sewn by Stefanie! Had a fun time with you guys in Bakerzin yesterday! i will try and upload the photos soon!
I might not have internet connection in my hostel in Paris though. But hopefully I will have internet connection in my host family's house!
Oh and please organise a stayover or what after i come back! :D
Kbox, plus stayover, plus pubbing or clubbing or mahjong or whatever nots!
In the meantime, dun miss me too muchie! (:
and to my SMS buddy, you can continue messsaging me de! (:
just that i wont reply lo! HAHA!
Take care girls! (:

Paris Disneyland here i come! :D

2009-05-07T09:35:00.001+08:00

HELLO WORLD!! I AM STILL IN SINGAPORE IF YOU DIDN't KNOW THAT! :D
But so far so good!
(:

This is my new toy!
From the disney shop in Tampines 1!
They are so so cute! (:

34 degrees celsius!!!

2009-04-27T21:24:00.004+08:00

The weather is freak freak freaking hot!!
):
Damn, its hard to study at high temperatures. High Temperature, High humidity!
Gosh! I am dissolving in own perspiration everytime I am outta my house!

Even in my cooling room, with the air condition turned on, I am still feeling the heat in me!

I need some life.
I need some exercise.
I need some time for my loved ones.
I need some time for myself and all my packing that yet to be done! argh.
I need more time for my tuition kidos!
Their exams are coming real soon and I am flying off already!
(They will be seeing me everyday from this Sun onwards..poor them..)

Cant wait for everything to be over.
And in a few days time, I am off to Germany.
Gosh, too fast/soon to be true.

Hopefully I wont get too overly homesick, which I think I will. ):
I shall try!

Anyway, Aunt was really nice. She called the other day, asking me about my preparation of the trip and stuff.. Then, she asked me when will I be back, and we can have a double Mama&Dada Day Celebration!! (Cos if they have it any earlier, I would miss out the Mama Day celebration! ):)
My Aunt is so cool! (: I am touched!

She also added that Malcom is becoming cuter and cuter each day! beginning to babble! (: urhh!! I miss my cousin kids! Marcus, Mabelle, Malcom! I guess I will only get to see them after I am back from Germany! ):

I will be missing out on dumplings festival in Singapore!!! AHHH!! but mom bought me an extremely oily nyonya dumpling that day. Not bad, just that its extremely oily.

Daily meals in germany will be bread after bread. Brown, Light brown, Dark Brown, Medium Brown, Black? Heh. Needa go really budget! (For the sake of Paris disneyland!!! Yeah man!) Bread isn't a torture to me, its an enjoyment! Rice is the torture!

I am missing one thing. One thing that I have abstained for quite sometime! :D
Hehe! (:

Love, you have been neglected. ): I will make up for it. That will be after me coming back from Germany. 1 and a half more months. skype me kkz! (: muacks! ♥

overly short

2009-04-23T14:05:00.003+08:00

that zeal in me is so short.
why?
it was possible yesterday afternoon.
Why not today's afternoon?

I feel like I am falling sick. ):
woke up with a painful throat.
uclers filling up my mouth.
accidental bites on my tongue! *freaking ouch!*

uttering rubbish here.
just woke up from my reluctant 2 hours afternoon nap.
Reluctant to nap and reluctant to awake.
):

hang in there..
as mugging begins..

"You've got to find what you love." Steve Jobs wise words (:

2009-04-22T20:52:00.002+08:00

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

and nope, i do not idolize him. Joan idolizes no one! :D [expect for herself probably. (:]

the arrogant iPhone!

2009-04-21T13:37:00.000+08:00

Lil Sokz - Never Be Replaced male version (:

2009-04-20T21:00:00.000+08:00

he wrote these lyrics himself.

baby i love you and i'll never let you go.

I love you,
Yes I do.
I'll be with you as long as you want me to.
Until.
The end.
Of time.

From the day I met you
I knew we'll be together
And now I know I wanna be with you forever
I wanna marry you
And I wanna have your kids

is everything perfect or is perfect everything?

2009-04-13T21:10:00.003+08:00

currently repeated in my playlist. (:

Stef, there is a korean part in the front! And i heard the "Opa" word! haha! boyfriend!

enjoy and think of the lyrics. (:

你常常说我很完美
没人能取代我给的一切
我就以为我努力更完美
我们就会永远
完美并不美
我们多虚伪
你让我的好变成一种罪
完美并不美
当你爱了谁
我的完美也只是不完美
后来你说我太完美
值得更好的陪在我身边
你不是我你怎么能体会
你有多么珍贵
完美并不美
我们多虚伪
你让我的好变成一种罪
完美并不美
当你爱了谁
我的完美也只是不完美
完美并不美
我们多虚伪
你让我的好变成一种罪
完美并不美
当你爱了谁
我的完美成了罪
完美并不美
我们多虚伪
你让我的好变成一种罪
完美并不美
当你爱了谁
我的完美也只是不完美

The final one.

2009-04-11T15:42:00.000+08:00

The final test to conclude my LAG2201.
Hopefully I can do well in it!

I am just aiming for a B+.
Maintaining my last semester grade.
Though, I have been doing much better for all my tests as compared to the previous semester.
Maybe not oral? I dunno... I thought I did fine, but just don't have a good feeling about the oral results. Just wondering if we would ever get our oral results back. And some feedback too. (:

Oh, and Tampines 1 is finally opened! (:
Of course being a ~~kiasu~~ tampinesian I went down to Tampines 1 on the first day!
My Tampines 1 buddies were Kesleen, Stef and my brother!
Mom came over to join us for dinner after that.

Woohoo! There is a Bakerzin there! (:
Wanted to have dinner there but the place is really too crowded and the restaurant itself is pretty small, not suitable for accommodating that kinda crowd of that day.

There is a really small Sky Terrence. which my brother thinks that many people will go there and pak tor. That place is more of a smokers' heaven to me! eeks la! There was this chao ah beng who spitted on the floor la. What the hell!

I haven seen the indoor swimming pool around though.

Oh, the hottest thing in Tampines 1 is Uniqlo! haha! you need to queue up just to get in! Sounds like an LV shop, but nah, the things inside are affordable, in fact rather cheap, cos they are having sales for ten days! (till 19April!)

Polo Tees for $6.90! Skirts for $4.90! cheap right?
However, i did not have the patience to queue so, too bad. Shall visit it again when the queue is not so long, or when finally there is no need to queue to go in!

Saw quite a few Mediacorp celebrities there too. Many have opened shops in there.
I will be going down to Tampines 1 again tonight with dear (:
haha! bye!

back to studying for that final test. (:

papercut

2009-04-05T22:50:00.000+08:00

just got this huge papercut on my hand and i feel faint!
gosh! You don't have any idea how painful it is. Just a small little cut.

Cut below the fingernail of my thumb.
The awful part with all the lines and wrinkles.
Directly on top of it. Shucks!

Nah, it isn't bleeding. Just a deep cut.
Fainting soon.
):

more reasons to faint:
Just completed an extremely difficult HAG for my German!
LAG2201 is getting tough!

CM1161 is killing me. Homework 7! Mine and Jiawei's combined question, Kesleen's question!
Haiz. Log mean temperature. I don't get it! unsolvable equations.

Cm1131 tutorial. Haven finish yet. First question and I am stuck. moved on to the second question, doable but totally no mood to do. guess i will leave it till tomorrow and once again, i am attending another tutorial slot. I had never gone for my own tutorial slot anyway.

Tuition was alright today. Suddenly had to coach two Primary 5 kids. Effectively, I have 4 tuition kiddos?
Payday next Wednesday. (: Looking forward to seeing the increase in my bank account! :D

its a vicious cycle...

2009-04-04T20:27:00.000+08:00

Recently many are telling me that snoopy is very old!
Its the oldest cartoon or what la. Thanks to the jacky wu show.

Nevertheless, I still love snoopy!
I love old stuffs (:

Got some results back.
Best being my German Vocab test! :) 95%! Woohoo!
Next vocab test coming up, thursday. will be aiming for around this grade or even higher!
Looking forward to my immersion over there!
Hopefully I will be able to catch up and learn a lot more! :D

Got my CM1121 mid-sem test too.
61/100. Okies la. thought that i would do worse.
Question 2 was a killer for many.
20 marks question. Luckily i got 13. I think that was what saved me.
Test is doable if you study really hard and really understand all that organic mechanisms that are happening.
My tutor is right, It has been proved that for CM1121 people can get full marks!
yeah, my best buddy's best friend got full marks! 100/100!
Unbelievable! Nah, i think it is believable la. Cause its him! and he actually has the cheek to tell me that he haven found his stimulus. What the hell!

Got a B for the most recent labreport.
I think it is largely due to the fengshui of my fumehood.
Fumehood G6 really has lousy fengshui!
Things just don't turn out as it should be.
And i did not do anything wrong at all! How can that be right?
Haiz, hope that this lab report will be better than the previous one.

I believe that it will (: and things will eventually turn out right. (:
The secret, I am loving it. (:

we played paintball! @ Red Dynasty

2009-04-02T22:27:00.003+08:00

This is one of those posts that have been neglected!
buried in draft!

28 June 2008
went for paintball with NP instructors.
:D

i did not regret going for paintball!
not at all!
BUT i don't think i will ever want to go back there again!

Haha.
The reason being the after effects are really too painful for me to endure.
Contused wounds sucks!!
I shall post up the pictures of the contused wounds in future!
(attached below!)

Paintball's play area isn't as big as people imagine it to be.
The play area is about the netball court size.
however, your movement area is less than half a netball area size lo.
sounds like its not tiring right?
eh, but if you are like Danial,
flip flip,
roll roll,
duck duck,
then, yeah, it is very tiring.
):
you may even end up vomiting pellets!
HAHA! *inside joke*

A common misconception is that paintball will stain your clothes.
eh, but no leh.
my clothes aren't stained at all. (:

oh ya, and after getting shot,
you will feel numb initially, not pain initially.
*special note, it is initially!
but it gets painful after the game and all that hype and excitement!

Whether or not the fun is worth the pain?
hmm, go try and decide for yourself ba!

Just some of the pictures that i have found! :D
HAHA! discourage the timid ones from going (:

The smallest wound that bleed on the spot!
pain! ):

This one was on my arm. Looks like some strawberry birthmark or love bite or what lor!

The most horrible one on my thigh!
I remember going around showing my friends this wound, and looking at their disgusted expressions!
HAHA! this picture does not do enough justice to how ugly the wound looks!